Quality Manager

Band 6

Main area

Support Services

Grade

Band 6

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Pattern will be flexible for the demands of the department & service.)

Job

287-CEF-407-25

Department name

LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)

Site

Broadgreen

Town

Liverpool

Salary

£38,682 - £46,580 per annum

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

09/03/2026 23:59

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sterile Services Department. are recruiting an experienced, dynamic and self-motivated Quality Manager to implement and manage the Quality management system ISO
13485 for the decontamination and reprocessing of Surgical Instruments from its Central Sterile Services department located at the Broadgreen Hospital site.

Working under the management of the Sterile Services Manager and in conjunction with the Surgical Instrument Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of managing and maintaining our ISO
13485 accreditation to our customers at Broadgreen Hospital, Royal Liverpool and Aintree Hospital sites along with the University Dental Hospital.

You must have previous knowledge and experience in surgical instrument reprocessing at a supervisory role or above in a Sterile services Department or similar medical devices manufacturing environment operating to ISO
13485 including undertaking internal quality audits and experience with external notified body visits. Your number one priority is ensuring that the quality system of the department is rigorously maintained.

To monitor and review, implement and procedures and other work instructions, for the receipt, sort, disassemble, decontamination, packing, sterilisation, storage and despatch of surgical instruments in compliance with ISO 13485 and the Medical Devices Regulations (MDR)

Communicate and implement revisions in working procedures with SSD staff and monitor staff production against the implemented QMS procedures and through an established internal quality audit programme.

Attend external notified body audits in conjunction with the SSD manger. Provide notified body auditors with QMS driven documentation and validation reports on request. There is also a requirement to attend unannounced notified body visits as they occur.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility.

Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year.

The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s visit their careers page.

To monitor and review, implement and procedures and other work instructions, for the receipt, sort, disassemble, decontamination, packing, sterilisation, storage and despatch of surgical instruments in compliance with ISO 13485 and the Medical Devices Regulations (MDR)

Communicate and implement revisions in working procedures with SSD staff and monitor staff production against the implemented QMS…