Senior Biomedical Scientist

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Division: NMCPS

Job Title: Senior Biomedical Scientist Infection Science

Band: 7

Location: North Midlands and Cheshire Pathology Service

Hours: 37.5 hrs

Managerially accountable to: Departmental Lead Biomedical Scientist (BMS)

Professionally accountable to: Pathology Directorate Manager and Clinical Director

Key Relationships: [Internal] Pathology Medical staff, Senior Pathology staff and all other staff in Pathology including support functions staff and laboratory users. [External] Relevant Medical, Nursing and support staff, General Practitioners, other Health professionals and reception staff.

Role Summary
• Responsible as leading BMS for a specialist area / section. To manage and co-ordinate the day-to-day technical activities of the laboratory or main specialist section; including supervision and training of scientific and support staff in area of work.
• To be an efficient and flexible member of the laboratory team providing a high quality diagnostic service through specialist scientific and technical activities commensurate with the training and education of a Biomedical Scientist registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• To provide specialist advice to clinicians (and to other laboratory users).
• To work within the written Policies and Procedures of the Department especially in relation to Health and Safety and Quality.
• To maintain competence to practice and to improve professional expertise through engagement in Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

205-6808932engagement in Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• HCPC registration
• MSc or equivalent
• 5 or more years post HCPC registration experience in Bacteriology
• IBMS specialist Diploma in Microbiology or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• IT qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Supervising / managing staff.
• Working with complex and specialist laboratory equipment.
• Pathology IT systems
• Participation in audit and service development projects.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an acute NHS Trust Experience in presenting data to clinical and scientific audiences in a range of formats.

Skills and ability

Essential criteria

• Analytical skills with the ability to work in a methodical and systematic way.
• Work with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and contribute to their review and implementation
• Work under pressure, prioritise workload and work to agreed schedules and deadlines.
• Work within safe systems of work and report any deficiencies in those systems

Desirable criteria

• Ability to establish and maintain effective Pathology networks with internal and external colleagues.

Important information about your application

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

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If you would like support completing an application form, please contact the recruitment department on 01782 675533 where one of our trained assistants will be able to help

At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Senior BMS (PDF, 743.8KB)
• BMS/IT appendix (PDF, 264.6KB)
• Statement handling - updated from policy (PDF, 33.6KB)
• Policy ex-offenders (PDF, 36.1KB)
• Infection control statement (PDF, 107.5KB)
• DBS Code of practice (PDF, 54.9KB)
• Trust Policy on Managing Risk Associated with Safeguarding Children (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Family Relocation Information (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Speaking Up Policy (PDF, 523.6KB)
• Recruitment Reasonable Adjustments (PDF, 122.1KB)