Specialist Quality Assurance Officer

3 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Have you got the enthusiasm, knowledge and experience to take up this exciting challenge?

We require you to be responsible for the management of the Quality Assurance (QA) officers and assistants, under the guidance of the Head of Pharmacy Quality Assurance (HPQA) and Senior Specialist Quality Assurance and Research.

As a QA Microbiologist youwill manage the running of the QA Microbiology Laboratory, such that an efficient system of workflow through the department is maintained.

You will also manage and be responsible for routine and non-routine sampling and testing e.g. physical and microbiological environmental monitoring and trending, instrumental analysis, etc, to maintain MHRA regulatory compliance in a licensed aseptic and non-sterile production facility.

Investigate/root cause microbiological Out-of-Limit (OOL) or unusual results. Undertake trending and routine reporting of microbiological status of facilities to releasing officers and site leadership.

Manage the training/proficiency testing of relevant staff including assistants, students, technicians and pre-registration pharmacy graduates in laboratory techniques and the principles of Quality Assurance

Manage the recruitment, development and appraisal of the Quality Assurance staff.

Maintain the cross site Microbiological Reporting System (MRS).

Manage SLAs with external companies with regards microbiological testing.

Develop and validate microbiological enumeration test methods for raw materials and finished products.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.



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