Total 39 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in oxford ox4 2zy

Quality Engineer

Seeking contracting work in the Automotive Manufacturing Industry? Looking to be a part of a well-established company and brand? We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join our prestigious clients on a long term contact basis.

The right candidate will demonstrate experience in work with OEM's and demonstrate experience working with multi-disciplinary team and suppliers and bring manufacturing process knowledge and exceptional leadership skills to efficiently manage supplier to achieve product process maturity, capability and ongoing efficiency improvements.
You will need to have excellent communication skills, are flexible in your approach to work and are used to problem solving under pressure.

Duties include but are not limited to

• As part of a multi-disciplined team, you will be responsible for identifying, evaluation and nominating new suppliers, steering supplier launch and quality departments to develop and manage the pre-serial activities in line with the companies group Project Milestones.
• You will be responsible for the approval of parts quality prior to launch and in serial production.
• To manage critical supplier concerns, ensuring in series the supplier is adhering to the standards and targets set by the companies process partners.
• Responsible for problems associated with your supplier scope and conducting root cause analysis to determine long and short-term solutions in a timely manner and escalating issues as appropriate.

This position will offer the candidate £21.88 per hour.

Skills and experience required.

• Apprentice and/or Degree (or equivalent) in a Mechanical/Electrical Engineering discipline would be beneficial.
• Experience in Original Equipment Manufacturing / OEM's/
• Language skills would be an advantage to support international supplier contacts.
• A strong knowledge of Manufacturing processes, production quality control methods and systems, quality management systems, tools, and maturation processes.
• An Ability to take ownership of problems and find solutions, with the confidence to make and enforce decisions within pressurised situations.

If you feel you are a fit for the role, please apply with your full CV, if you have any questions please contact Vibe Recruit on 01869321322.

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

To work with the Quality and Safeguarding Lead and Senior Clinical Pathways Manager to develop robust clinical governance structures and arrangements and advise services within the network the vision on clinical governance and patient safety. To provide reports on clinical governance, risk and CQC compliance, quality, and patient safety to the CAMHS Tier 4 and HOPE (Adult Eating Disorders) Provider. To manage the coordination of the complaints, patient safety incidents and CQC assurance processes across the network and ensure that action plans where required are implemented and monitored. To analyse the outcomes of patient safety incidents and investigations; patient experience surveys; complaints and concerns investigations. To maintain the CAMHS Tier 4 and HOPE (Adult Eating Disorders) Provider Collaborative risk registers and highlight medium and high risks to the CAMHS Tier 4 and HOPE (Adult Eating Disorders) Provider Collaboratives Clinical Governance meetings making sure that actions are in place to mitigate them. To provide clinical leadership to the workforce and other professionals within the team in relation to complex case situation/s as required. To contribute to the operational planning, and implementation of policy and service development in relation to quality improvement across the CAMHS Tier 4 and HOPE (Adult Eating Disorders) Provider. To attend all forums/meetings that are appropriate, including representing the CAMHS Tier 4 and HOPE (Adult Eating Disorders) Provider Collaboratives at meetings with partner organisations and other agencies. To act as a champion for patients and their interests. To work with providers and partners to share intelligence and identify areas of good practice expertise. To contribute to the development and maintenance of robust and reliable mechanisms and processes for monitoring standards of clinical quality, patient safety and patient experience across the specialised commissioned services.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed information on the role and responsibilities. Candidates not meeting the essential criteria listed in the person specification may be offered a band 5-6 progression, more information can be found in the 5-6 progression job description.

ISO Compliance Manager required to be responsible for implementing, maintaining and delivering quality and compliance.

You will have a technical, manufacturing or engineering background and experience in a quality or compliance role relating to standards in medical devices both in the UK and the EU. Ideally with high tech design and manufacturing.

ISO13485, MDD, MDR experience and understanding of medical devices is essential.

Role responsibilities

Maintaining ISO-9001 and ISO-13485 Quality Manuals, procedures and related documentation.

Understanding of the MDD and MDR regulations.

Liaison and management of Notified Body audits.

Management and data provision to provide customers with compliance certification relating to various international requirements such as Li-Po & Li-Ion battery compliance, RoHS, Conflict Minerals, TSA, FDA, CE, Certificates of Origin.

Management of internal records relating to compliance and quality throughout the design/production/manufacturing process.

The IPCN is a specialist clinical practitioner with oversight of a broad range of infection prevention and control issues. They will provide advice, education, and support on all aspects of infection prevention and control to the diverse range of departments and staff. They will be competent in the delivery of training and audit programmes. To lead, facilitate, support, and monitor the development and implementation of Infection Control Surveillance and audit projects in line with the Infection Prevention and Control annual programme, whilst reflecting National directives. The post holder will assist in the analysis of data and the preparation of results for reporting and dissemination of data by working with the multidisciplinary teams. The post holder will be an employee of the OUHFT and may be required to work at any of the four sites within the trust.

A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Infection Prevention and Control is at the top of the agenda at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We currently have a fantastic new opportunity for aband 6 children’s registered nurseto come and work in an established and forward-thinking team. We recognise that children are not just small adults and we really want a children's nurse to join our team to provide that missing link for us.

We are looking for someone who firmly believes in improving safety for patients and staff. The role will challenge and develop the many skills you already have whilst creating and identifying a new set. Although you may not have previous Infection Prevention and Control experience, this can be taught, and nurtured in a safe and supported environment, but you must possess excellent communication skills, critical thinking and ingenuity is essential.

Working in this team will also support you to work autonomously to create quality improvement projects in IPC, using your creative and leadership skills whilst having support from the team to allow you to achieve these goals. Personal development is important to the Oxford IPC team so you must be interested in your future and the future of our IPC team.

If you are interested, we would very much like to meet you informally to discuss the opportunities and breadth of this IPC role.

The post holder will be expected to:
• Provide specialist advice and expertise to support the prevention, surveillance, and control of infection across OUHFT.


• Assesses patients; plans, implements, and monitors care; provides advice. This may be carried out in a specialist area and/or using specialist nursing skills


• Provides day-to-day supervision and/or clinical supervision to other


• Contribute to the day-to-day maintenance and further development of a high quality, proactive, responsive, and accessible infection prevention and control service.


• Assist in developing and reviewing specialist infection control policies and protocols, in order to promote and maintain the highest standards of infection prevention and control practice that is evidence and research based.


• Provide training and education to increase awareness of infection prevention and control issues amongst all disciplines and grades of staff within the Trust.


• Contribute to the Annual Infection Prevention and Control work programme on behalf of the Infection Prevention & Control Team (IPCT).


• Create quality improvement projects across a wide range of settings to support best evidence practice.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

The IPCN is a specialist clinical practitioner with oversight of a broad range of infection prevention and control issues. They will provide advice, education, and support on all aspects of infection prevention and control to the diverse range of departments and staff.


• They will be competent in the delivery of training and audit programmes.


• To lead, facilitate, support, and monitor the development and implementation of Infection Control Surveillance and audit projects in line with the Infection Prevention and Control annual programme, whilst reflecting National directives.


• The post holder will assist in the analysis of data and the preparation of results for reporting and dissemination of data by working with the multidisciplinary teams.


• The post holder will be an employee of the OUHFT and may be required to work at any of the four sites within the trust.


This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jan 2024

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Your new company

My client is an excellency focussed, employee-owned SME with a flat hierarchy that drives success. They have two main departments: environmental consultancy and software development [water]. They have a distinctive opportunity for an ambitious and collaborative individual to develop and progress their career as a Principal Water Quality Modeller.

Your new role

This role would be ideal for an experienced candidate that enjoys conducting water quality assessments and is now looking to step their career up a level to lead on water quality modelling in a small and successful employee-owned business.

Working closely with their software development team, you will play a key role in the development of a new water quality modelling tool, expanding their best practice for a new hydrological modelling online software. They believe that it is the exchange and challenging of ideas between colleagues that drives us to continually improve our products, so a collaborative mindset is key.

You will be working with scientists at UKCEH, the EA and prestigious universities in the UK. The project is focused on understanding the link between the sources of chemical pollutants and their pathways, fate, and ecological impacts in freshwater ecosystems. Their tool is used as a best practice tool for the estimation of flows in ungauged catchments by the EA, NRW, SEPA, NIEA, EPA and UK water companies. The estimation of climate change adjusted flows will be implemented this year through an EA, NRW and SEPA joint funded project. This new tool will be based on a water quality modelling extension to the predecessor that has been used extensively by UKCEH over the past 20 years to model the fate of various chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and nanoparticles across the UK, including an assessment of SARS-CoV-2 loads across UK river catchments.

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Good first degree (upper second or higher) in a numerate discipline and ideally be chartered with CIWEM or IEMA.
• Track record of delivering high quality models using various systems.
• Understanding of the inner workings of modelling software.
• Ability to manage a large workload effectively.
• Able to understand strategic business needs.
• Experience representing a company as a technical specialist.
• Be fully conversant with the regulatory framework that underpins your work.

What you\'ll get in return

Successful performance in this role would lead to enhanced discretionary bonus and promotion to Technical Director within 3 years, or less for those with more extensive experience.

• £40,000 - £50,000 p/annum
• Remote working arrangements available.
• 5% matched pension contributions
• Generous 40.5 day leave entitlement and tax-free bonus entitlement, staff may trade in up to 10 days annual leave for increased salary or purchase up to 10 days of additional annual leave.
• Flexible working options - hours and locations.
• Staff are encouraged to take an annual 'Environment Day' to support environmental or educational volunteering projects.
• As an employee-owned trust, they provide tax-free bonuses to all staff and operate a separate performance-related bonus scheme. Distribution of bonus is dependent on achieving a minimum profit level.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Medicash health plan offering a wide variety of benefits including cashback on your everyday healthcare treatments, checks and therapies, access to a virtual GP and face to face counselling.
• They have a formal appraisal system matched by personal development plans and each member of staff has access to 5 days every year for targeted training and professional development.
• They provide financial support for our staff in gaining professional membership of the appropriate body.
• The office is a Grade II listed building located in a leafy and tranquil business park with an on-site restaurant, decent coffee, and excellent transport links to nearby cities. On-site sports facilities include table-tennis, tennis, and canoeing, while the nearby Chilterns are criss-crossed with walking and cycling trails.
• Through their affiliation with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology there is the direct opportunity to interact with leading scientists within their fields and to contribute to the further development of models and methods deployed within our software products.
• A good IT infrastructure is essential to their operations as project teams commonly operate out of several offices. They have shared computing infrastructure across all offices and access to high speed GIS and modelling. They reserve a computing budget for each staff member to ensure that all staff have access to the latest modelling and software tools required for their work.

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To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form. COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination. Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk. Were looking forward to hearing from you!

A Vacancy at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.


An opportunity has arisen to appoint a enthusiastic Band 6 nurse within the field of Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability. This is an exciting time to join an innovative and expanding team. Both specialities offer high profile agendas and corporate working which will allow practitioners to develop skills across a wide range of clinical services.

The role will provide an opportunity for a motivated enthusiastic nurse with an interest in Infection Prevention and Control and Tissue Viability to gain valuable experience across a wide variety of disciplines. Staff will have the opportunity to work on each of the hospital sites to broaden the wealth of experiences each site offers in order to meet service needs.

Core hours of the service are 08 - 17.00 covering 7 days a week.

As a professional role model you will provide direct and indirect clinical care, ensuring the needs of the patient are central to service delivery. You will monitor and improve standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence- based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues. Consequently the successful candidate will need the ability to travel independently across hospital sites. Please read the job description to understand the main duties of the role.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.





To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!




This advert closes on Monday 25 Dec 2023

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