# Quality Assurance Officer

**Company**: UK Health Security Agency
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England; City of Westminster, Greater London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 33,422 - 45,353 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Quality Assurance Officer will play a key role in the Quality Assurance & Regulatory Compliance Team, providing core business support and ensuring effective business administration of the Quality & Regulatory team's work.

The wider Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate is pivotal to UKHSA's mission, overseeing the comprehensive delivery of commercial, contract management, and business development functions.

Responsibilities:

- Regulatory Compliance Assistance: Support the team in ensuring that all activities related to vaccine distribution adhere to regulatory requirements and standards.

- Quality Documentation Management: Assist in managing and maintaining quality-related documentation, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), quality manuals, and records of quality control activities.

- Support in Quality Monitoring: Help monitor and track quality metrics and performance indicators related to vaccine distribution.

- Coordination and Communication: Facilitate communication and coordination between quality assurance, regulatory teams, and other departments.

- Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training / development needs with line manager through appraisal / individual development plan.

The post holder will be in a cross-cutting role based around the pharmaceutical supply chain and will be expected to engage with a wide range of stakeholders from global pharmaceutical suppliers to our own storage and national distribution provider.

Person specification: Essential Criteria:

- Educated to a Science degree level or relevant equivalent experience

- Significant experience working in Quality Assurance within the Pharmaceutical or similar sector

- High attention to detail and accuracy

- Ability to interpret and trend quality data

- Good verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team

Desirable Criteria:

- Good understanding of the UK/ European regulatory framework and current guidelines relating to the manufacture and supply of medicines

- Knowledge and experience in Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems (PQMS)

- Ability to work with limited supervision to tight and often changing timescales

Benefits:

- Salary of £33,422 - £45,353 per year

- Employer contribution of £9,682 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme

- Learning and development tailored to role

- Flexible working options

- Culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- Civil Service pension with employer contribution of 28.97%

## Skills

### Required
- Quality Assurance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems
- Good Distribution Practices
- Good Manufacturing Practices

### Nice to have
- Good understanding of UK/European regulatory framework

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