Service Development, Quality and Innovation Lead

Are you looking for a new challenge and passionate about developing pharmaceutical quality control services?, Specialising in Microbiological services (environmental and process monitoring including identification to species level) you will work closely with the operational service delivery teams.

You will work closely with the lead pharmacist for quality, overseeing the management of quality, validation and R&D. Youwill develop the quality management and validation teams to ensure competency and capability.

You will take a lead role in research and development within the lab and ensure delivery against annual business plan, providing assurances of progress to the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Transformation and Business, and to the Chief Pharmacist.

You will work closely with service managers and technical specialists.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"