Job vacancy: Clinical Biochemistry Quality Team Leader, Band 7, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester

Job summary

Main area: Clinical Biochemistry
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 318-25-T0642

Employer: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Town: Gloucester
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 (pro rata if part-time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/09/2025 23:59

Clinical Biochemistry Quality Team Leader, Band 7

Band 7

At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.

You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.

We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.

Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will, amongst other duties, be required to:

Support the Clinical Biochemistry management team in the day to day running of the laboratory system and ensures that the laboratory becomes progressively more effective in quality terms, meeting where applicable, regulatory and accreditation requirements for United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Human Tissue Authority (HTA), and all other relevant statutory and regulatory bodies.

Co-operates and collaborates with Trust Quality, Health & Safety Audit,

Control of Records, Freedom of Information (FOI) and Clinical Governance

Departments.

Liaises with UKAS, MHRA, HTA, and other relevant bodies.

Ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standards.

Liaises and works closely with departmental Team Leaders and Laboratory Managers within the discipline of Chemical Pathology.

Ensure that pathology policies and procedures are in place to form and maintain the Chemical Pathology’s Quality Management System. This shall include but not be limited to: control of documents, control of records, control of clinical materials, recording and management of audit and nonconformities, recording and management of feedback, procedures for validation and verification.

As part of the quality team, engage with inspectors/assessors, to explain and demonstrate the functioning of the Quality Management System within Chemical Pathology.

Additional Contact Information:

Jeff Keast

Clinical Biochemistry Deputy Laboratory Manager

0300 422 5237

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

Good Basic Education including Literacy and Numeracy Skills
First or second-class degree. Master’s degree or equivalent
Must be HCPC registered
Demonstrate evidence of CPD E.g. courses/meetings attended, quality improvement projects, observations etc.

Desirable criteria

Additional relevant qualification e.g. management qualification.
Experience in training, mentoring and appraising others.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrate IT literacy, e.g. Microsoft Office, Outlook, familiar with internet searches
Demonstrate good communication skills
Able to transcribe data accurately and quickly Demonstrate an ability to work accurately and with precision
To be able to interpret and critically assess detailed information.
Specialist knowledge of change management
Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
Ability to show initiative and enthusiasm.
Demonstrate organisational and time management skills

Desirable criteria

Bronze QI Award

Experience

Essential criteria

Must have extensive experience of working in the NHS
Experience of working closely with senior management in and outside of Pathology
Expert knowledge of Quality Management
Experience of Datix, specifically clinical incident investigation, root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
Experience of testing digital systems and investigating digital issues.
Demonstrable experience of delivering continual improvement
Experience of risk management and maintaining risk/hazard logs.

Desirable criteria

Experience working with/in Chemical Pathology
Development of audit cycles
Experience of managing complex changes using change management/control processes

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Good manual dexterity
Must be capable of working with little supervision under own initiative.
Demonstrate well rounded personality, calm disposition and good attitude to work.
Demonstrate a good health record
Ability to work under pressure

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

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