Pan Path Quality Manager

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Quality Manager for their Pathology team. The role involves leading quality management efforts to ensure compliance with ISO15189:2022 and overseeing the accreditation process. The ideal candidate will have advanced qualifications in healthcare, deep knowledge of quality management practices, and significant experience in a clinical laboratory. The position offers a dynamic environment focused on improving patient care and operational excellence.

Benefits

Great work-life balance

Opportunity for career development

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Registered BMS and specified qualifications in quality management.
• Documented evidence of CPD and annual appraisal.
• Significant post-registration experience in a clinical laboratory environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Pathology Quality Management System (QMS).
• Guide Quality Leads on applying relevant quality standards.
• Ensure compliance with external regulatory organizations.

Skills

In-depth knowledge of ISO 15189:2022 and UKAS accreditation processes

Knowledge of NHS clinical governance, risk management

Ability to analyze and present complex information

Collaboration skills with internal and external partners

Education

Masters level or equivalent in a relevant scientific or healthcare discipline

Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Registered

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, Complianceand 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. Thispost holder will have a key role in developing improvement plans and developing animprovement culture.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity 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.

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) Registered BMS
• Qualified to Masters level or equivalent in a relevant scientific or healthcare discipline (E.g. Biomedical Science, Healthcare Quality, Clinical Governance)
• Documented evidence of CPD and annual appraisal
• IBMS Certificate of Expert Practice in Quality Management or equivalent

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• In-depth knowledge of ISO 15189:2022 and UKAS accreditation processes
• Knowledge of NHS clinical governance, risk management, and regulatory frameworks
• Significant post registration experience in a clinical laboratory environment
• Ability to understand and deal with complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions
• Ability to analyse, create and present highly complex information and to develop practical and workable solutions
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working

Exrerience

• Experience of preparing for and managing UKAS inspections under ISO 15189:2022
• Evidence of training skills and ability to communicate with a wide variety of people.
• Evidence of experience of quality management systems, audits and document control
• Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your teams, by engaging them in development and delivery plans, establishing clear work priorities with them, delegating effectively, ensuring a capability to deliver, monitoring performance and giving feedback
• Working knowledge of all pathology disciplines

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.