# Band 8d - Director, UK NEQAS BTLP

**Company**: West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Watford
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £96626.00 to £111084.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate UK NEQAS Director to lead the UK NEQAS BTLP team. The post holder will organise and be accountable for the clinically focused and cost-effective delivery and development of UK NEQAS BTLP services to UK and non-UK participants.

**Main duties of the job**

- Writing in-depth review and supplementary survey reports, with detailed analysis and clinically relevant specialist opinion, for participants and external advisors.

- Reviewing participant performance against criteria agreed with the relevant quality assurance panels, communicating with participants where performance is deemed unsatisfactory and offering evidence-based expert advice for improvement.

- Managing the staff within UK NEQAS BTLP and the management of the staff jointly employed with the UK NEQAS Haematology.

- Managing the budget and other physical resources of UK NEQAS BTLP.

- Running the scientific operation of the UK NEQAS BTLP programme of surveys and the development of pilot schemes.

**Job responsibilities**

- Providing expert scientific advice and interpretation to participants, professional bodies and other organisations on quality assurance, clinical laboratory performance and other issues.

- Representing UK NEQAS BTLP and the wider UK NEQAS organisation in a professional capacity on external national committees and organisations.

- UK NEQAS BTLP business planning and business continuity policy.

- Security of information held by UK NEQAS BTLP.

- Planning and undertaking a programme of research designed to identify and monitor trends in hospital blood transfusion laboratory practice.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working options

- Staff wellbeing and development priority

- Recognition of the importance of a good work-life balance

**Requirements**

- Current UK professional registration

- Expertise in blood transfusion and the provision of EQA

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## Skills

### Required
- blood transfusion
- EQA
- quality assurance
- clinical laboratory performance

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