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Trosolwg o'r swydd

East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust Pathology Services are looking for a Quality Manager with strong leadership and communication skills to join our team in driving forward continuous improvement. 

You will report to the Head of Quality, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs and as a senior member of the quality and governance team be responsible for engaging and embedding a quality culture with design implementation and maintenance of the Quality function of the service.

You will work in collaboration with the  laboratory teams, Service Leads, Operations Managers , Head of Operations  Quality Managers and Head of Quality to ensure that pathology becomes progressively more efficient in delivering a high quality service across both sites.

The Quality team will promote continuous improvement in service quality within all areas of the laboratory assuring regulatory and accreditation requirements to ISO 15189, MHRA, HSE, and others as required.

You will be expected to work closely with all staff to ensure an efficient and effective corporate approach in dealing with all Quality and Training matters. You will be a HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist with extensive experience in implementing and maintaining accreditation and continuous improvement.

This role requires you to travel across Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals with an element of working from home. This role is full time, however we would consider part time.

Please note: Previous applicants need not apply

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Overseeing and assuring regulatory body approval - UKAS, MHRA, CQC, HSE and any others as required

Assuring appropriate risk assessments and risk managements are in place.

Assuring the Health & Safety functions within the service.

Ensuring compliance with trust quality, risk and governance policies

Performing and overseeing incident investigation to include root cause analysis principles and implementation of the recommendations and learning actions.

Ensuring efficient operation and management of the quality management system.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where 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. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

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

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