Deputy Quality Assurance Manager

Job overview

We are looking for a Deputy Quality Assurance Manager who will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of a robust Quality Management System across the Aseptic service, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulatory and accreditation standards to support safe and effective patient care.

A key aspect of the role will involve promoting quality assurance principles and embedding these into routine clinical practice. The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality standards are consistently understood, applied, and sustained across all services.

The deputy quality assurance manager will also lead and deliver quality improvement initiatives, ensuring services evolve in line with regulatory requirements, audit outcomes, and best practice. This includes managing projects focused on compliance, service development, and patient experience.

Main duties of the job

• To support the QA Manager in building, developing and monitoring the quality systems applicable to the pharmacy service with a particular focus on those relating to Manufacturing and other registerable activity
• To review and approve quality documentation and systems including change management, GMP deviations, recalls, complaints, product defects etc.
• To undertake and support the preparation of SOPs.
• To ensure satisfactory maintenance and monitoring of the aseptic manufacturing unit and equipment.
• To participate in internal quality audits (Production Unit and Stores and distribution) and external audits as required.
• To approve master worksheets, which relate to or might impinge upon licensable activities.
• Be responsible for the approval or rejection of raw materials, intermediates, hospital manufactured, commercial products and packaging materials and to keep appropriate records, including maintaining electronic records.
• To evaluate Pharmacy manufacturing batch records, alongside Quality Control reports, prior to release or rejection of a batch
• To support and where indicated lead investigations into deviations in quality processes.
• To contribute to external inspection requirements relating to GMP and GDP eg MHRA , CQC , GPhC.
• Ensure appropriate escalation of all risks and outstanding corrective and preventative actions. Maintain relevant records, ensuring accurate data input into all computerised systems.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.