Band 8a Principal EQA Scientist and Scheme Manager inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
MON 28 OCT 2024
The successful candidate will support the Director and Deputy Director, integrate clinical and technical knowledge, and take an active role in continuous quality improvement within the department. The role is full-time, Monday to Friday, and encourages prospective applicants to reach out for further information or to visit the Birmingham Quality facility. Requirements include a first or second-class honours degree in chemistry, biochemistry, or a related subject, along with a master's degree or equivalent knowledge in laboratory medicine.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Principal EQA Scientist and Scheme Manager to work within a friendly, professional and busy team dedicated to providing External Quality Assessment (EQA) programmes to Hospital Laboratories. This is an extremely unique position.
Birmingham Quality (UK NEQAS) provides External Quality Assessment (EQA) Services for Clinical Chemistry laboratories within the UK and worldwide; and our Clinical Chemistry specimens are prepared in-house.
As a Principal EQA Scientist, you will provide expert advice to Consultant, Heads of participant laboratories on the impact of their EQA performance on their clinical service to clinicians and patients, analogous to the 'Duty Biochemist' role.
If this post interests you, we would strongly encourage you to contact us prior to submitting your application or to arrange a visit to Birmingham Quality, to see the variety of work performed and to meet other team members.
Please contact Hailey Goodman, Operations Manager, on , or
The role is 5 days a week Monday -- Friday, 08:30 and 17:00, and the position is permanent.
As Principal EQA Scientist in Birmingham Quality you will support the Director and Deputy Director in the scientific management of the Department undertaking health technology assessment in the UK and internationally to internationally accepted accreditation standards.
Integrate knowledge from the clinical and technical area of laboratory medicine
Undertake scientific aspects of generic EQA scheme design, implementation, development, audit and continuous quality improvement
Provide a scientific advisory service to participant laboratories, diagnostic manufacturers, Government and regulatory bodies and other organisations
Formulate complex EQA Scheme designs that meet clinical specifications and quality system requirements, and which probe the characteristics of participating laboratory methodology
Undertake performance surveillance and take action on participants with poor performance
Monitor customer complaints and internal audit of operations and ensure that corrective and preventative action is undertaken to resolve problems and non-conformities
Formulate complex EQA Scheme designs that meet clinical specifications and quality system requirements, and which probe the characteristics of participating laboratory methodology
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The ability to appraise critically and to integrate a wide range of information (from the areas of laboratory analysis, clinical application of laboratory medicine, EQA principles and practice), and to interpret and apply this in internal actions and external advice
The ability to write complex reports relating to EQA schemes for understanding by a mixture of people in participant laboratories
First or second-class honours degree in chemistry, biochemistry or allied subject
Master's degree (or assessed equivalent level of knowledge) in laboratory medicine or relevant related area
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