Head of Quality Laboratory Services
Join our Quality and Regulation team to support the service delivery areas, maintaining compliance with quality standards and continually improving their processes to a high standard.
We’re Anthony Nolan. We’re here to uncover the answers inside us. Answers for people with blood cancer and blood disorders. Answers that will not only improve lives today but save them tomorrow.
By uniting people and science, we’re growing our world-leading stem cell register, so everyone who needs a transplant, can find their lifesaving match. We’re currently giving four people a day another chance to live.
Driven by patients, backed by stem cell donors, and powered by science, we won’t stop until we’ve unlocked the cures, treatments and transplants that will transform the future for more patients. And together, we can reach the remarkable day where every patient who needs us can not only survive, but thrive.
If you're inspired by this vision, and feel you have the skills and experience we need to help achieve it, we'd love you to join our lifesaving team.
We are looking for a Head of Quality (Laboratory Services) to join our Quality and Regulation team.
Title: Head of Quality Laboratory Services
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per annum (dependent on experience and Head Office location)
Contract: Permanent, full time
Hours: 35 per week (standard Anthony Nolan working hours)
Location: London or Nottingham, hybrid working (2 days on-site per week)
Job Summary
The Head of Quality (Laboratory Services) is a new role for the organisation and will oversee the integration and maintenance of the Quality and Regulation (QR) function within Anthony Nolan’s laboratory services. This includes ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards across divisions like the H&I Laboratory, Cell Therapy Centre and Cell Collection Centre, whilst embedding a quality mindset culture. The role requires providing expert advice on regulatory and quality standards, leadership in quality management support and launch QR education resources for example on QMS tools.
In this role, you will manage a small team of 3 Quality Managers, together as a team you will ensure Anthony Nolan’s Human Tissue Authority (HTA) licenses and accreditations are maintained (ISO 15189, FACT NetCord, and JACIE). Working closely with your team you will ensure full compliance with accreditation standards, and drive quality improvements across the organisation and effectively manage internal audits. As a person designated under the HTA you will oversee regulatory matters such as data and report submissions. Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders will be key to ensuring Anthony Nolan plans effectively for changes to the regulatory environment.
This role is ideal for a motivated and enthusiastic professional, with experience of working in a highly regulated healthcare laboratory environment, knowledgeable in the HTA regulatory environment. An individual who is excellent at building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including the external regulatory and accreditation bodies. They will be a confident leader and communicator who can influence and negotiate with people to comply with the requirements of the quality management system. An experienced line manager who can keep abreast of the work of the team and allocate and prioritize resource to meet the demands of the services areas. Educating their team and others on quality principles will also be a key part of the role.
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive salary
- 27 days annual leave, pension scheme, childcare vouchers, access to counselling via a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
- Life Assurance of four times annual salary
- Travel season ticket loan, Cycle to work Scheme
- And more! (further details on our Life at Anthony Nolan page)
Please check out the full job description here, and you can read more about what to expect on the Our recruitment process page.
Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone another chance to live.
Anthony Nolan is a Disability Confident Committed and Living Wage accredited employer.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK.
- Department
- Chief Executive Office
- Role
- Quality & Regulation
- Locations
- Anthony Nolan Histocompatibility Laboratories, Cell Collection Centre
- Yearly salary
- £50,000 - £55,000
- Contract hours
- Full time
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Closing date
- 09 December, 2024
- Hybrid working expectation
- Flexible (but NOT fully remote)
So how can you tell if you're Anthony Nolan too?
- You’re passionate and dedicated to your work
- You’re innovative and looking for a challenge
- You want to improve and learn every day
- You’re accountable for your work and take pride in what you do
- You’re people and patient focused – you want to make a difference to people’s lives
These five values are what drive and motivate us across all of our divisions. From lab research and tissue typing, to finance, HR and legal, from patient support and logistics, to fundraising, marketing and communications… everyone has a critical role to play in our lifesaving work.
We’re incredibly proud of the people who work for us – and we’re always on the lookout for more passionate and talented individuals. If you like the idea of joining a team that gives four people the chance of life every day, check out our job listings below.
About Anthony Nolan
Anthony Nolan is the charity that makes lifesaving connections between patients in need and incredible strangers ready to donate their stem cells. Find out more about what we do here.
Head of Quality Laboratory Services
Join our Quality and Regulation team to support the service delivery areas, maintaining compliance with quality standards and continually improving their processes to a high standard.
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