Clinical Genomics Quality Officer

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification

Ensuring departments are completing compliance tasks according to plan.

Contribute to the Pathology quality annual management review.

Manage the progress of outstanding actions, and records and coordinates new resulting actions as well as CAPA initiatives.

Carry out the schedule for the auditing and surveillance of the quality management system for Clinical Genomics as directed by the Pathology Quality Manager.

Monitors effectiveness of the quality management system in the department and reports back to the discipline leads and Pathology Quality Manager.

Attend Quality and Risk Management Meetings, providing a comprehensive Quality Report for each discipline.

Person specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Strong communication skills in all media including e-mail, phone
• Ability to teach / educate
• Ability to produce documents of publishable standard
• Ability to use in-house IT systems
• Competent in use of main Microsoft software applications
• Able to investigate and follow up non-conformances in any discipline

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Career plan & educational aspirations
• Ability to interact with high grade staff and present negative findings
• Confident in dealing with staff
• Decision maker, can deal with unexpected situations

Specific Experience

Essential criteria

• BMS or BSc degree, HPC registration if BMS
• Evidence of continuing post registration study
• Higher degree or equivalent
• Qualification in quality management
• Ability to formulate, perform and evaluate staff training
• Knowledge of risk management and clinical governance issues
• Ability to plan for Trust targets
• Good understanding of the principles and practice of QMS
• Good understanding of ISO 15189 standard and associated documentation
• Ability to deal with nonconformities and plan follow up actions

Desirable criteria

• Chartered Scientist status if BMS

Management experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to work across units
• Willingness to represent Pathology at external meetings

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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Documents to download

• Job description and person specification (PDF, 358.8KB)
• Job Features Form (PDF, 128.6KB)
• Royal Marsden Trust Values (PDF, 715.5KB)
• Workplace Wellbeing and Rewards Guide (PDF, 1.2MB)