Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Biohemistry (Shifts incl. nights)

Job Overview

We have a vacancy for a Biomedical Scientist Band 6 in Biochemistry with a desire to work as part of one of the largest NHS-led Pathology Services in the South of England. We are specifically looking for an experienced candidate to support our 24/7 shift system.

Applicants MUST have HCPC registration and relevant NHS laboratory experience.

Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services - (A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust).

We Can Offer

• innovative practices and an inclusive environment where staff feel valued,
• strong personal and professional development,
• a laboratory at the forefront of the national Modernising Pathology agenda,
• forward thinking and team orientated staff
  
  

We can help you to achieve these by supporting your development via our CPD programme. In addition, we support development of staff with internal and external courses within Blood Sciences.

Main duties of the job

Dimensions Of Job

They will liaise closely with the line manager in providing a high quality technical service that builds on the standards defined by the UKAS and ISO 15189:2022. They will be expected to develop and maintain close working relationships with all grades of staff both technical and medical to ensure the effective delivery of the technical service.

You will work in rotation within all sections of Biochemistry laboratory. The laboratory is well equipped with Abbott's Alinity ci analysers, TOSOH G11 Kryptor Compact Plus, Uvikon XL Spectrophotometer, Cobas e411 and OsmoPro Multi-Sample Micro-Osmometer.

We are in the transition to implement GLP track system.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Financial & Management

• To make best use of consumables and reagents in an efficient manner.
• To highlight to senior staff where improvements may be made that will decrease our costs and/or improve service delivery
  
  

Personnel & Training

• To be involved in the robust and effective CPD / appraisal processes across BSPS.
• To train, supervise and aid in the development of other BMS grades, trainee BMS and support workers, and direct their duties as requested by senior staff.
• To participate in job experience and recruiting schemes by representing the Trust, Department and Profession at and within these events.
  
  

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BSc in Biomedical sciences
• HCPC registration in Biomedical sciences
• IBMS Specialist portfolio
• Evidence of CPD
  
  

Desirable criteria

• M.Sc Biomedical Science
• IBMS member at member level
  
  

COMPETENCIES

Essential criteria

• Multi-tasking skills, prioritisation skills and initiative
• Team worker & going extra mile
• Working out of hours
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ECDL / IT - experience of LIMS (e.g. Winpath)
• QMS experience
  
  

PROFESSIONAL

Essential criteria

• Experience of a diagnostic speciality in Biochemistry
• NHS Blood Sciences Experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Abbott's Alinity ci analysers
• Experience of working in a HUB laboratory
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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