Band 7 Quality Supervisor BT and POCT

Exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Senior Biomedical Scientist (Quality & Training Supervisor) in Blood Transfusion and POCT, supporting Queen's Hospital Romford and King George Hospital Goodmayes.

The role provides quality and training oversight across both sites, contributing to a department delivering 26M diagnostic tests annually. This is a critical clinical position ensuring accreditation and regulatory compliance., To oversee compliance with all regulatory standards and requirements within Blood Sciences ensuring quality standards are maintained. Under the direction of the Pathology Head of Quality Governance and Education they will be responsible for organising and participating in maintenance of quality programs ensuring that work is carried out to agreed standards and quality in a timely and efficient manner that meets the demands of the user and accredited bodies.Duties may include the supervision of other Blood Sciences personnel and taking a lead role in training, quality management and health and safety.

Experienced in Blood Sciences, especially quality management and training. Blood Transfusion experience preferred, but all Blood Science specialties considered. Flexibility to work across two busy hospitals required.

Key Requirements:o IBMS-accredited MSc/FIBMS in Biomedical Sciences, Blood Transfusion, or equivalento HCPC registrationo Proven experience with quality systemso Laboratory training experienceo Ability to work independently and supervise staffo Evidence of CPD and strong IT skillso Effective presentation and communication skills

You show leadership, organisational and interpersonal skills, a patient-focused approach, and strong knowledge of quality, governance, risk management, and continuous improvement. Experience of supervising a lab section is desirable. The Trust is exploring new systems to meet growing 24/7 testing demand.

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.