Quality and Regulatory Affairs Apprentice
Pennine Healthcare
Derbyshire (DE24 8WY)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 July 2025
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Summary
An exciting opportunity to gain new skills and a Level 4 Quality Practitioner apprenticeship. This role is ideal for those starting a career in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs within a medical device company. You’ll support the QA/RA team across a variety of tasks, all focused on our mission to improve patients' lives.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Working hours – 38 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 08:30-17:00 and Fridays 08:30-15:00
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Attend and engage with training including exams and 1-2-1 meetings with your tutor
- Act as the primary point of contact for product quality complaints, liaising with customers and suppliers when needed
- Support and conduct the investigations and root cause analysis of any quality related incidents
- Provide support for internal/external audits against ISO 13485 and ISO 14001
- Collation of data when required to support the wider team
- Conducting product testing with the QC laboratory and recording of results.
- Writing of product testing reports following the collection of data.
- Work with our pack component suppliers to obtain up to date regulatory information in collaboration with the procurement team.
- Manage your time effectively to complete the required assignments/coursework and exams to achieve the apprenticeship.
Where you'll work
City Gate
London Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE24 8WY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CLEAR QUALITY LIMITED
Training course
Quality practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify, interpret and apply relevant legal, governmental or industry regulations affecting the organisation.
- Communicate using appropriate methods (verbal, written, visual) to influence internal and external stakeholders, using appropriate questioning techniques such as open questions, leading questions.
- Identify, collect and analyse relevant quality data using appropriate tools and techniques such as Pareto analysis, statistical methods and trending analysis.
- Apply methods and tools to improve the quality performance of processes, products and services such as production control plans, standardised work, use of failure modes and effects.
- Identify, analyse and prioritise quality specific risks and opportunities. Support the development, implementation and effectiveness of resulting actions.
- Plan and conduct system, product or process audits.
- Assess the effectiveness of the measurement systems using tool such as Measurement Systems Analysis.
- Identify requirements from technical documents, commercial input or stakeholder statements and converting to definitions that can drive the organisations processes
- Identify gaps in process performance and develop improvement plans to close gaps.
- Apply structured problem solving including identification, definition, measurement, analysis, improvement and control methods and tools.
- Communicate organisational quality strategy to all levels of the organisation.
- Identify who the internal and external stakeholders are and their current and optimal positions (such as hostile, help it work, opposed, uncooperative, indifferent, hesitant, enthusiastic support) required to support quality related activities.
- Identify, interpret and apply relevant legal, governmental or industry regulations affecting the organisation.
- Communicate using appropriate methods (verbal, written, visual) to influence internal and external stakeholders, using appropriate questioning techniques such as open questions, leading questions.
- Identify, collect and analyse relevant quality data using appropriate tools and techniques such as Pareto analysis, statistical methods and trending analysis.
- Apply methods and tools to improve the quality performance of processes, products and services such as production control plans, standardised work, use of failure modes and effects.
- Identify, analyse and prioritise quality specific risks and opportunities. Support the development, implementation and effectiveness of resulting actions.
- Plan and conduct system, product or process audits.
- Assess the effectiveness of the measurement systems using tool such as Measurement Systems Analysis.
- Identify requirements from technical documents, commercial input or stakeholder statements and converting to definitions that can drive the organisations processes
- Identify gaps in process performance and develop improvement plans to close gaps.
- Apply structured problem solving including identification, definition, measurement, analysis, improvement and control methods and tools.
- Communicate organisational quality strategy to all levels of the organisation.
- Identify who the internal and external stakeholders are and their current and optimal positions (such as hostile, help it work, opposed, uncooperative, indifferent, hesitant, enthusiastic support) required to support quality related activities.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
About this employer
- One of the UK’s leading, employee owned, manufacturer and distributor of single use, sterile ward and theatre consumable and custom procedure packs. - Pennine Healthcare was incorporated in 1963, growing year on year, selling and distributing to over 50 countries worldwide. - Manufacturing in three state of the art cleanrooms operating to the BS EN ISO 14644 standard. - Employees live the purpose and values of the business ensuring that Pennine can continue to protect life.
After this apprenticeship
Fixed term 14-month contract with potential progression upon successful completion of all elements of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CLEAR QUALITY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334025.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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