Head of Quality

3 weeks ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Band 8b

**Main area**
- Pharmacy Technical Services
- **Grade**
- Band 8b
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Requirement to provide out of hours cover for emergency medical gas testing as a pool of colleagues covering the rota)
- **Job ref**
- 164-5041189**Site**
- Queens Medical Centre
- **Town**
- Nottingham
- **Salary**
- £56,164 - £65,262 pa
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 02/03/2023 23:59Job overview

Are you passionate about driving quality in Pharmacy technical services?

Would you enjoy leading a professional and friendly team working in quality assurance and quality control in a large, MHRA licensed NHS facility?

Following retirement of the current postholder, we are looking for a forward thinking, experienced and ambitious quality professional to join us as our head of Quality. You must have excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and an ability to problem solve and implement change in a highly regulated environment.

Main duties of the job

The Head of Quality is responsible for providing a Quality Assurance/Quality Control service to the Pharmacy Production units at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) and a number of other NHS and commercial clients.

The post holder is responsible for monitoring all licensable activities and ensuring compliance with GMP and will be named on all relevant Manufacturers and Investigational Medicinal Product Licences, as the person Responsible for Quality. The Head of Quality is responsible for the management of the dedicated purpose built Quality Control Laboratories (chemistry and microbiology) and its team of 15-20 Quality Control and Quality Assurance staff.

Following appropriate training, the role also involves testing of piped medical gas systems and the inclusion on the NHS register for QC (MGPS).

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts. We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services and are at the forefront of many research programmes.

The pharmacy department is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. NUH has four production units. The MHRA licensed Sterile Production Unit, Non-Sterile Manufacturing Unit and Pharmacy Packing Unit are based at the Queens Medical Centre Campus. The unlicensed Cytotoxic Chemotherapy Production Unit is based at the City Hospital Campus.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please fully review the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
- Registered (or able to register) with the appropriate professional bodies
- Able to act as a Releasing Officer

Experience

Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in Pharmaceutical QC/QA or production to include acting as a releasing officer, quality management systems and regulatory audits
- Experience in supervision and management of staff

Desirable criteria
- Experience in medical gas testing

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
- Able to effectively communicate to others including staff, licensing authorities and prospective customers verbally
- Excellent written communications needed for technical and managerial reports to senior personnel

Analytical and judgment skills

Essential criteria
- Able to utilise knowledge of GMP, and Regulatory guidelines to be able to advise clients and pharmacy managers on all aspects of Quality Assurance.
- Able to use Professional judgement when considering release of product and when problem solving managerially or technically
- Thorough and accurate work required for review of laboratory results and batch documentation prior to release or rejection of the product.

Planning and organisation

Essential criteria
- Able to make decisions and take responsibility for implementing these decisions
- Ability to act on one’s own initiative as appropriate
- Evidence of developing skills to manage own workload and that of own teams when required
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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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