Health Services Laboratories r1PhyHWg
The Senior Biomedical Scientist will work primarily weekdays from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM but may need to cover late or night shifts due to emergencies or staff sickness. Key duties also involve contributing to audit activities, developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), participating in staff recruitment and appraisals, and assisting in method development. The candidate should demonstrate leadership qualities and possess strong decision-making and organisational skills to ensure the delivery of high-quality laboratory medicine services.
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Biochemistry team at Barnet Hospital as a Senior Biomedical Scientist.We are looking for a candidate with a passion for training and preferably, but not essentially, experience in maintaining staff competencies, ensuring mandatory and statutory training requirements are met, experience in quality management, interpretation of external report and providing support and guidance to staff undertaking the registration and specialist portfolios. You must be a Health and Care Professions Council HCPC Registered Biomedical and holding post graduate qualification in Blood science.
Please include details of your HCPC registration on your CV and in the application form and any relevant training experience or qualifications that might support your application.
The Clinical biochemistry Service at Barnet Hospital NHS Trust is provided by Health Services Laboratories (HSL).
The role will involve working alongside other members of the laboratory team and management, undertaking Biochemistry investigations, providing a 24/7 service. However, as a Senior Biomedical Scientist, we would see you typically working9:00AM to 5:30PM weekdays and in the event of sickness/emergencies, you would be expected to cover late shift (12:00-20:30PM) or night shift. (20:00PM-08:00 AM)
An experienced Biomedical Scientist to lead a team of staff in a section of the department with responsibility for providing a comprehensive , high quality medicine service to all HJSL clients. The senior Biomedical Scientist must use a combination of knowledge, decision making organisational and supervisory skills to ensure that the appropriate testing is performed safely, accurately and in a timely manner, on each sample received
About us
Overall Job Purpose: An experienced Biomedical Scientist to lead a team of staff in a section of the department with responsibility for providing a comprehensive, high quality laboratory medicine service to all HSL clients. The Senior Biomedical Scientist must use a combination of knowledge, decision making, organisational and supervisory skills to ensure that the appropriate testing is performed safely, accurately and in a timely manner, on each sample received. Main duties 1. To co-ordinate and participate in the routine processing of specimens; and to allocate work to the other BMS and MLA staff to ensure a smooth workflow. 2. To ensure that for each sample the appropriate requested investigations are performed in a timely manner. 3. To ensure that specialised and urgent specimens are appropriately dealt with. 4. To participate in the technical work as required. 5. To ensure appropriate maintenance and safe use of equipment. 6. To assist in the development of rotas in conjunction with the other senior biomedical staff and ensure that they are operated correctly, and to liaise with the other senior BMS staff to provide continuous cover from the start of each day. 7. To co-ordinate adequate supplies of laboratory consumables and reagents and co-ordinate their stock control. 8. To contribute to audit activities. 9. To contribute to the maintenance and development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). 10. To be involved in staff recruitment for Medical Laboratory Assistant and Biomedical Scientist grades, and to conduct appraisals as required. 11. To undertake method development and evaluation as directed by departmental manager, with inputting into service development. 12. Deputise for departmental manager as required.
Please wait...this will take a moment...
