Haematology and Specimen Reception Network Quality OfficerinSloughinSloughPUBLISHED SUN 13 APR 2025

Job Overview

The role will cover Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services Haematology departments (BSPS) and Specimen Reception, it will include a blend of home working and cross site attendance.

There will be a requirement to work closely with the other Blood Sciences Quality officers to provide cover and ensure a harmonized approach to quality within Blood Sciences with leadership from the Blood Sciences Quality Manager and Deputy General Managers

Quality management to include audit, document control, incident and under the guidance with blood sciences BT IT lead.

Provide support for departments to achieve appropriate accreditation.

Main duties of the job

To assist and support the implementation and management of the Quality Management system (QMS) across Haematology and Specimen Reception within BSPS, in conjunction with the Blood Sciences Quality Manager and senior Blood Sciences management, and the BSPS Quality Team

To work closely with the Haematology/Blood Sciences Site Lead BMS's, and the Blood Sciences Quality Team to facilitate a harmonised approach to the Blood Sciences QMS across BSPS.

To support the development and implementation of quality initiatives within Haematology and Specimen Reception to facilitate the achievement of regulatory and accreditation requirements.

To help develop and maintain effective working relationships with staff within the BSPS Trust network, and external customers (where necessary) to ensure the continuing development of a professional and efficient service.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

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Some Key requirements include ability to carry put audits, document control, review of incidents and non-conformities. Support external accreditation visits.

Person specification

HCPC And Higher Education Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HCPC, BSc, MSc, Quality qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence experience and achievemnts in this area
  
  

experiance

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 5 years BMS experience
  
  

communication skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate with staff and achieve goals within remit
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Production of audit schedules, managing NC's, introduce change
  
  

management skills

Essential criteria

• evidance supporting the ability to implement change
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Able to lead team/staff in achieving common goals
• Evidence successful accreditation visit performance and leadership
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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