Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Northern General Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for part-time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/09/2024 23:59
Interview date: 03/10/2024
UK NEQAS Operations Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued, and appreciated. While you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff, including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.
Job overview
This vacancy has arisen for a self-motivated and enthusiastic UK Health and Care Professionals Council registered health care scientist to join the management team of this dynamic and internationally respected External Quality Assessment (EQA) programme based within the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Working closely with the Centre Manager, the post holder will manage daily operations of this high-quality ISO 17043 accredited external quality assessment department, providing EQA programmes in the field of clinical immunology, immunochemistry & Allergy.
The duties of this post are varied and interesting, with the successful individual expected to use their own initiative and work without close supervision but still be able to work as part of a team. The individual will be expected to promote good working relationships with both internal and external national and international agencies.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an ambitious candidate to join the scientific team at UK NEQAS IIA and help deliver a high-quality EQA service to laboratories worldwide. The individual must hold a postgraduate qualification in a biomedical science subject and must hold a current UK HCPC Registration.
The individual will have proven advanced theoretical knowledge, highly developed laboratory skills, and a working knowledge of immunological techniques. They must have experience of presenting data to other scientific staff and be able to use their scientific knowledge to answer questions from a large audience of peers.
The individual must have a wide-ranging knowledge of statistical analysis of data and have significant experience of providing expert advice and guidance to senior managers and stakeholders to inform complex decision making.
The successful candidate will possess excellent leadership, supervisory, and communication skills in order to resolve EQA performance issues related to individuals and clinical laboratories, promote the development of standardisation and harmonisation within national and international clinical laboratories in order to assist international organisations.
If you are looking for a new challenge and would like to be part of a dedicated team of scientists working to improve patient care on a global scale, we would like to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Fully registered with HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist or an equivalent and relevant professional body.
* Higher degree such as MSc in relevant subject and Management qualification or equivalent experience.
Teaching and Training
* Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Experience of presenting data to other scientific staff and taking questions from a large audience of peers.
* Experience of teaching nationally or internationally.
Experience
* Experience of leading operational activities in a specific area/functional unit and/or acting as a point of escalation.
* Ability to interpret, weigh, distil and summarise complex datasets. Significant experience of providing expert advice and guidance to senior managers and internal/external stakeholders to inform complex decision making.
* Experience of developing, organising, supporting and delivering events/projects/training.
* Experience of managing diverse groups of staff. To include ability to manage change and ability to manage staff.
* Extensive relevant laboratory experience at a higher level.
* Good time management and organisational skills for self and ability to support other staff in these areas.
* Knowledge of methods and statistics in EQA and IQC.
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of active seeking of relevant knowledge, learning and promotion of CPD including other staff.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with highly effective persuasion and negotiation skills.
* Proven ability to develop effective working relationships with staff at all levels.
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