Senior Biomedical Scientist in Cellular Pathology

The Cellular Pathology department at Calderdale Royal Hospital is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated senior biomedical scientist with a focus on quality and patient safety.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive team and we encourage further development. The department is committed to quality and improvement and is UKAS accredited and IBMS approved for training.

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with strong leadership skills. They will be HCPC registered, with an MSc in Biomedical Science (Cellular Pathology option) or Higher Specialist Diploma in Cellular Pathology and a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science.

Responsibilities:

1. Work with the laboratory manager and other senior staff to maintain an efficient and effective department with high morale and standards of in-service training.
2. Deputise for the cellular pathology laboratory manager if required.
3. Monitor all aspects of the pathology quality management system within the cellular pathology laboratory.
4. Oversee all aspects of training and competency within the Cellular Pathology department and mortuary in collaboration with the departmental manager and other senior staff.
5. Ensure all health and safety aspects of the cellular pathology department and mortuary are managed in collaboration with the laboratory manager and other senior staff.
6. Participate in the routine and developmental work of the department including histology, non-gynae cytology, andrology, and mortuary and new techniques as they are introduced.
7. Supervise and coordinate the activities of BMS, Trainee BMS, Associate Practitioners, MLA, secretarial and mortuary staff within the cellular pathology department.
8. Monitor the performance of all subordinate staff within the department including internal quality control.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.