Senior Biomedical Scientist

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, dynamic and forward thinking individual to join our Senior Biomedical Scientist team to help take forward and develop the Clinical Biochemistry Department at Frimley Park Hospital.

The laboratory is fully accredited with UKAS and holds IBMS training status for Registration and Specialist Portfolio.

Within the Laboratory we currently use Winpath Enterprise, Abbott Alinity CIs, GLP automation, TOSOH G11's, UV spectrophotometer, Osmo Pro, Chloride meter and PLGF meter.

Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS), one of the first NHS pathology networks to be established in 1998, is now one of the largest in the country. We are driven to provide a patient centred service which provides safe, high quality, clinically led diagnostics.

BSPS is a contractual joint venture between Ashford & St. Peter’s Hospitals, Frimley Health (Wexham Park & Frimley Park Hospitals), Royal Berkshire, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts, and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare.

Main duties of the job

Being flexible, self-motivated and innovative will be fundamental to your role. The ability to communicate effectively with seniors and laboratory team is essential.

You will use your knowledge and skill to ensure a robust and fully operational system within the Clinical Biochemistry department. You will look for new opportunities to get the best from the team and successfully implement changes required to ensure the system delivers the desired patient focused service.

You will be based at Frimley Park Hospital, and may be required at times to travel to the other sites in the Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Network.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post-holder will practise as an HCPC Registered BMS in the department, participating fully in the practical work of the department and shift for out of hours provision. They will be responsible for the operation and provision of a high quality technical service providing guidance to other staff as appropriate. They will also be expected to deputise for the Site Lead Clinical Biochemistry BMS in their absence.

The post holder will be responsible for the day to day running of a quality, efficient and a timely Clinical Biochemistry Service as requested by the service users, ensuring departmental protocols, policies and standard operating procedures are adhered to and updated to comply with regulatory and accreditation requirements including UKAS ‘Standards for the Medical Laboratory’ and ISO 15189: 2022.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1. HCPC registered
2. Extensive professional knowledge - gained through MSC or at least 5 years experience
3. Evidence on CPD

Desirable criteria

1. MSc in Biomedical Science or Clinical Biochemistry
2. Relevant experience at Senior level - at least three years

Competencies

Essential criteria

1. Excellent communication skills - verbal and written
2. Ability to manage own time
3. Advanced computer literacy
4. Ability to work under pressure
5. Ability to work as part of a team, and to lead a team
6. Deals with complaints

Desirable criteria

1. Managerial experience

Professional

Essential criteria

1. Understanding of relevant National Legislation
2. Extensive professional Knowledge of blood transfusion and clinical practice

Desirable criteria

1. Experience in change control
2. Experience of supervising staff and training

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

1. Mirror the trust values and behaviours as stated on website

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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