# Quality Assurance Officer

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Brixton
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £38488.00 to £46852.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Quality Assurance Officer will support and maintain a quality management system to assure the quality of clinical research undertaken within the Research and Development Department in accordance with prevailing legislative and best practice requirements.

The post holder will play a role in the co-ordination of working practices and policy implementation to ensure that the Trust is at all times compliant with both internal policies and external regulatory frameworks.

The post holder will drive a quality approach to the conduct of commercial and non-commercial clinical research to ensure that clinical trial quality is assured throughout all areas within the Trust where clinical research is undertaken.

**Main duties of the job**

- In conjunction with the QA Team and R&D Operational Manager, set up and manage the quality control of clinical research activity undertaken within the R&D Office.

- Support the QA Team to develop, implement, review and verify R&D working practices and standard operating procedures, ensuring that all Regulatory and Trust requirements are encapsulated.

- Implement and maintain office systems to manage working practices and policies within the Trust.

- Maintain precise and accurate quality management records that are ready for inspection by regulatory authorities and Sponsors on demand.

**Job responsibilities**

- Preparing reports of InPhase incidents across the Trust for the Research Governance and Risk committee on a quarterly basis.

- In conjunction with the QA team monitor incidents to ensure CAPA has been implemented and incidents are closed.

- Working with patient safety managers to ensure close links between Trust and research governance systems.

- Assist in the hosting of regulatory inspections and external audits as required.

- In conjunction with the QA Team, manage the Trusts research audit and monitoring programme and undertake monthly GCP and research governance audits and writing reports.

**Person Specification**

- Relevant degree or professional qualification or equivalent experience.

- Advanced IT skills, ECDL or proven equivalent experience in MS Office, email and Internet browsers.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills to communicate effectively with researchers, consultants and staff from different disciplines and administrators at all levels.

- Ability to communicate healthcare research information in an easily understood manner.

- Strong planning and organizational skills including the ability to prioritize, manage multiple tasks and projects, with proven ability to deliver to stringent performance criteria within agreed deadlines.

- Strong ability to problem solve.

- Strong ability to build successful relationships and collaborate in a cross functional team and maintain a positive work environment.

- Resilience and flexibility; able to contribute innovatively to solving process development problems.

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## Skills

### Required
- Good Clinical Practice
- quality management
- regulatory compliance
- research governance
- clinical trials

### Nice to have
- Good Clinical Practice training
- risk and incident management experience
- basic understanding of medical terminology

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