Pan Path Quality Manager

Wye Valley NHS Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the United Kingdom seeks a Quality Manager for their Pathology team. The successful candidate will lead quality management efforts, ensuring compliance with ISO15189:2022 standards and maintaining various accreditations. The role involves developing improvement plans and guiding Quality Leads to uphold high-quality standards across all disciplines. This position offers an opportunity to work in a beautiful rural location and make a significant impact on patient care.

Benefits

Great work-life balance

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Responsibilities

• Lead on Accreditation, Compliance and Quality Assurance for the Pathology department.
• Ensure compliance with ISO15189:2022 Standard and maintain accreditation.
• Develop improvement plans and foster an improvement culture.
• Implement and maintain the Pathology Quality Management System (QMS).
• Provide guidance to Quality Leads on relevant quality standards.

Job description

Are you looking for a new challenge? Wye Valley NHS Trust are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic person to join our Pan Pathology team. The Quality Manager (QM) for Pathology is a key leadership role within Wye Valley NHS Trust (WVT). The role will provide essential quality management to the whole of the Pathology department ensuring compliance in all areas of the ISO15189:2022 Standard to maintain Pan Pathology UKAS accreditation.

This is a key leadership role within Wye Valley Trust to lead on Accreditation, Compliance and Quality Assurance. This role will be crucial in maintaining the various accreditations required within Pan Pathology as well as ensuring compliance with the Trusts governance and risk framework. This post holder will have a key role in developing improvement plans and developing an improvement culture.

This role is integral to the development, implementation and maintenance of the Pathology Quality Management System (QMS); ensuring that it is implemented, maintained and is operationally effective. They will provide expert guidance and oversite of the Quality Leads roles in each department regarding applying relevant quality standards that fulfil and future-proof services in respect of compliance with external organisations that govern laboratory standards, in order to achieve a common standard of excellence across all disciplines that meets the need of its users.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.