# Lead Quality Assurance Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-quality-assurance-officer/f26e328a-9b4f-4034-a2d2-178ffbe2ddf8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-quality-assurance-officer/f26e328a-9b4f-4034-a2d2-178ffbe2ddf8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Southampton General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T10:00:33.483Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8258848 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258848?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Job Title: Lead Quality Assurance Officer Contract Type: Permanent ### Main duties of the job This is an exciting opportunity to join our Pharmacy Quality Assurance team as a Lead Quality Assurance Officer. We are looking for someone who is passionate about quality, compliance, and continuous improvement. Thrives in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment where your expertise directly contributes to patient safety and service excellence. In this key role, you will help ensure that the Quality Management System (QMS) supporting our pharmacy aseptic services remains effective, compliant, and continuously improving. Your work will play a vital role in maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficacy for medicines supplied to patients, while supporting compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), licensing requirements, and accreditation standards. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities In this role you will act as a designated Releasing Officer, you will hold a key responsibility within the aseptic service, undertaking the final quality assurance review and release of compounded products for use. Using your knowledge of GMP, aseptic processing, environmental monitoring, validation, and quality systems, you will assess production documentation and quality data to ensure products meet all required standards before release. You will make critical decisions relating to product quality, investigate and escalate concerns where necessary, and work closely with production and the wider pharmacy team to ensure medicines are supplied safely, effectively and in a timely manner. This highly accountable role places you at the forefront of safeguarding patient safety and maintaining regulatory compliance across the service. We are looking for a motivated and organised individual with experience of Quality Assurance and GMP environments with excellent communication skills. You will be confident managing competing priorities, investigating quality issues, developing staff, and building effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels. This role offers the chance to further develop your leadership and specialist quality assurance skills within a supportive and progressive team dedicated to delivering outstanding patient care. Participation in weekend, bank holiday, and on-call rotas will be required as part of the service. If you are committed to quality excellence and want to play a pivotal role in supporting safe, high-quality aseptic services, we would love to hear from you. ## Person Specification ### Trust Values **Essential** - Patients First - Always Improving - Working Together ### Skills and competencies **Essential** - Ability to learn and assimilate information quickly - Analytical thinking - Attention to detail - Change management - Collaborative approach - Communication - Logical thinking - Organisational skills - Time management - Problem solving - Prioritisation - Risk management - Self-motivated - General IT skills ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Undergraduate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences (or equivalent level of experience of GMP Quality Assurance / Quality Control.) OR Registered Pharmacy Technician in UK by GPhC OR Registered Science Technician (Apprenticeship Standard – Level 3 Diploma in the Principles of Aseptic Pharmaceuticals Processing) in UK by the Science Council - Experience in supervising teams and ensuring high standards of performance and workflow - Ability to work under accurately under pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining required standards. - Experience in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) in relation to the production of sterile medicines - Experience of developing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies - Demonstrates times when able to work effectively under pressure - Ability to use a range of information technology programmes effectively including Microsoft office programmes - Good organisational skills and effective time management with the ability to prioritise workload appropriately - Ability to use initiative, but know their own limitations and professional boundaries - Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team - Strong accurate communication skills in English, both verbally and in writing. - Maintaining continuous professional development requirements or training portfolio - Work weekends, late nights and bank holidays as per rota - Cover flexible working hours according to rota **Desirable** - Detailed knowledge of Quality Assurance and Quality Management Systems including relevant experience of audits, validation requirements, investigations, including microbiological, deviations and complaints and change management - Experience in preparing and presenting at meetings. ## Documents - [job description + person spec (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572310) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.