Pathology Quality Co-ordinator
| Posting date: | 09 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-PATH-473 |
Summary
The post holder is responsible for supporting the CSU Quality Lead to facilitate the ongoing accreditation and development of the quality systems within Pathology. The post holder will assist the Quality Lead in the development and maintenance of a quality and service improvement programme across all specialities within the CSU. The post holder will assist and support the senior team in ensuring the delivery of CSU wide compliance with statutory, mandatory and national clinical governance standards and support the team to ensure good clinical governance practice across the services. The post holder will co-ordinate multi-speciality meetings, activities with other professions and agencies. The post holder will be able to initiate the planning and coordination of these activities. The post holder will be able to manage a number of these complex activities at any time on a daily basis. The post holder will attend meetings and provide administrative support to CSU colleagues as required, for example during Peer Review. The post holder will also be involved in the development and maintenance of audit schedules, monthly reports, service improvements and root cause analysis where needed within the CSU. Quality system(s) and/or projects will be allocated to the post holder who will be responsible for ensuring day to day management and updating of the quality systems. The post holder will be expected to attain basic knowledge of all areas and discuss and highlight incidents as they occur. The post holder will collate information for the CSU Governance and other quality meetings across the CSU. The post holder will attend meetings, take minutes and liaise with staff to ensure that actions are completed. The post holder will support the quality team education program, booking rooms, updating calendars and spreadsheets and preparing materials for quality forum meetings. The post holder will collate the complaints for the CSU and ensure accurate and up to date records and tracking logs are maintained as well as assisting the managers with completing responses. The post holder will track all investigations via a dashboard and upload action logs to DATIX. The post holder will support the CSU leadership teams in undertaking Patient Safety Incident Response Framework Investigations. The post holder will support the quality administrator team within the CSU with quality management system alignment work and training in quality systems and processes. The post holder will be required to travel and work across hospital sites within the Trust. The post holder will work with the Pathology Quality Lead and Departmental Leadership teams to support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality systems and will be required to liaise with other internal Trust departments and external Healthcare providers. The post holder will be jointly responsible for the issue and document control of all CSU-level policies/procedures and also promoting effective document management within individual departments in conformity with the Pathology document management policy. The post holder will support the Pathology Quality Lead in ensuring continuous improvement across all aspects of the Directorate by supporting audit, and service improvement initiatives, including application of the Leeds Improvement Method (a key element of the role). The post holder will support the Pathology Quality Lead and CSU Triumvirate teams with collating and gathering information on a regular basis as well as preparing presentations for CSU and Trust-level meetings