Company Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Overall Job Purpose
The Quality Governance and Data Officer is responsible for coordination of Quality governance and maintenance of the Quality Management System framework using data extracted from multiple sources including Confluence, Jira, Service Desk and other business systems.
Job Description
- Ensure production and publication of core Quality system metrics across Genomics England, providing up to date information on Quality processes to highlight weaknesses, gaps and areas for improvement to be used in Programme boards, team meetings and Management Review.
- Manage the Genomics England Document Management system, GE-QMS, ensuring document workflows are controlled and executed correctly, providing training and support on the system, where required, monitoring status of documents through appropriate dashboards to support continuous Quality Improvement.
- Coordinate preparation for key Quality review meetings including Management Review, CAPA review board, Internal audits and supporting activities for external audits.
- Coordinate Quality approvals required for deviations, change management, non-conformances and incidents through the Service Quality Partners, to ensure timely completion and maintenance.
- Support the Service Quality Partners with change activities and initiatives, as required implementing quality processes, and monitoring controls and indicators as needed.
- Ensure supporting processes, including regulatory gap assessments are up to date and current working with the Service Quality Partners.
- Triage and assign tasks for ad hoc business requests, providing a prompt response to questions and requests.
- Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of your role.
Qualifications
Strong experience and/or qualifications gained in software engineering, development of digital services and genomics. We are looking specifically for a good understanding of genomic data analysis (life science background) and some familiarity with software management tools.
Additional Information
Closing date for applications: Thursday 31 July at 11.59pm
Salary from: £35,500
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
- Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
- Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
- Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
- Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
- Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
- Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
