Quality Clerk inDarlington inDarlington PUBLISHED
THU 21 NOV 2024
The position requires a strong understanding of pathology laboratory information systems and how they integrate with the Trust's IT systems. The Quality Clerk must be able to travel independently across Durham and Darlington to support cross-site operations. This role demands a proactive individual capable of working autonomously while adhering to departmental procedures and quality management protocols, ultimately contributing to the trust's mission to provide high-quality integrated care to the local population.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest integrated care providers in England, serving a population of around 600,000 people. We are a high performing organisation with a track record of success.
Our Pathology service covers a range of disciplines, providing 11million test results per annum Blood sciences (haematology, transfusion, biochemistry, immunology) and cellular sciences (microbiology, cellular pathology and mortuary), and is proud to promote career development pathways throughout the team, at all levels. An exciting opportunity has arisen for one new post within our pathology team. We are looking for one highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to assist the Quality Manager in preparing data for reports and meeting to allow teams to perform trend analysis of incidents and organising and arrangeing pathology meetings.
The successful candidates will assist the Quality Manager and Pathology departments with the implementation, management and maintenance of the Quality Management System for Pathology services, ensuring specific standards are met such as United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), Human Tissue Authority (HTA), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA), ISO standards 15189 and 9001.
The successful candidates will support staff at all AfC grades with maintenance of accreditation, internal and external quality assessment, record keeping, data analysis, audit, data input, production of reports and training and administration activities associated with the Quality management system (Qpulse) for all departments.
You must have an understanding of Pathology laboratory information systems and support document control and non-conformity reporting for these systems, and have an understanding how these systems integrate into Trust IT systems
The successful candidates must be able to travel independently to support cross-site working across Durham and Darlington.
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A member of the Pathology department working as part of the Quality team, providing support to all disciplines to support maintenance and achievement of regulatory standards.
This support involves internal and external quality assessment, record keeping, data analysis, audit, data input, production of reports and training and administration activities associated with the Quality management system (Qpulse) for all departments
Directed by Pathology Quality Manager the post holder will assist the departments through the duties outlined.
They will be expected to work to the departmental standard operating procedure and policies.
The role will involve training of Pathology staff at various levels/grades
The post holder will be expected to work autonomously with direction form the Quality Manager.
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