Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Deputy Quality Assurance Manager
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Deputy Quality Assurance Manager
We are looking for a Deputy Quality Assurance Manager who will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of a robust Quality Management System across the Aseptic service, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulatory and accreditation standards to support safe and effective patient care.
Responsibilities
- Promote quality assurance principles and embed these into routine clinical practice.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality standards are consistently understood, applied, and sustained across all services.
- Lead and deliver quality improvement initiatives, ensuring services evolve in line with regulatory requirements, audit outcomes, and best practice.
- Manage projects focused on compliance, service development, and patient experience.
Key Duties
- Support the QA Manager in building, developing, and monitoring the quality systems applicable to the pharmacy service with a particular focus on those relating to Manufacturing and other registerable activity.
- Review and approve quality documentation and systems including change management, GMP deviations, recalls, complaints, product defects, etc.
- Undertake and support the preparation of SOPs.
- Ensure satisfactory maintenance and monitoring of the aseptic manufacturing unit and equipment.
- Participate in internal quality audits (Production Unit and Stores and distribution) and external audits as required.
- Approve master worksheets, which relate to or might impinge upon licensable activities.
- Be responsible for the approval or rejection of raw materials, intermediates, hospital manufactured, commercial products, and packaging materials and to keep appropriate records, including maintaining electronic records.
- Evaluate Pharmacy manufacturing batch records, alongside Quality Control reports, prior to release or rejection of a batch.
- Support and where indicated lead investigations into deviations in quality processes.
- Contribute to external inspection requirements relating to GMP and GDP, e.g., MHRA, CQC, GPhC.
- Ensure appropriate escalation of all risks and outstanding corrective and preventative actions.
- Maintain relevant records, ensuring accurate data input into all computerized systems.
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About Imperial College Healthcare
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
- Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative, and aspirational.
- You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
- Benefits include career development, flexible working, and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
- Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan, or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
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Equal Opportunities
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time, or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental Sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensure our services are efficient, sustainable, and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr David Jefferies
- Job title: Head of Aseptic Quality
- Email address: david.jefferies1@nhs.net
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