Job overview

The Pathology Quality Assurance Lead is a senior (B7) specialist role within the Pathology Quality & Compliance function, providing independent, second-line assurance that operational quality across all Pathology services is effectively identified, controlled, and escalated. 

This provides independent quality assurance across Pathology and therefore appropriately reports into the Pathology Quality & Compliance function, with overall accountability retained by the Associate Director of Pathology.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will lead on monitoring, assurance, and compliance oversight of statutory, regulatory, and Trust quality requirements across all Pathology disciplines, including laboratory, mortuary, POCT, and supporting environments.

The role does not replace operational management responsibility for quality. Instead, it provides expert oversight, professional challenge, and escalation to ensu...