Job summary
- Main area
- Immunology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Staff Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Current Bank Rate Applies
- Job ref
- 200-SB-BioMScien-B5-HF
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St George's University Foundation NHS Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- Current Bank Rate Applies
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 10/08/2024 17:00
Employer heading
Biomedical Scientist Band 5
Band 5
Job overview
To be an efficient and flexible member of the SWL Pathology team providing a consistently high quality and professional service to all users of the service.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
We expect all our staff at SWL Pathology to share the values that are important to us and that our service users have a right to expect – to be excellent, kind, responsible and respectful, delivering the best possible standard of service at all times and to behave in a way that reflects these values
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached JD
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • Honours degree in Biochemistry (or related subject)
- • Masters degree in Clinical Biochemistry
- • Registration as a Clinical Scientist with the Healthcare professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant PhD
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Minimum of 3 years working as a Pre-Registration Clinical Scientist
- • Experience of participating in research, development and audit
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Experience of general clinical biochemistry service
- • Able to demonstrate clinical reasoning and interpretation
- • Detailed knowledge of Clinical Biochemistry
- • Ability to perform (or at least troubleshoot) complex analytical techniques
- • IT skills necessary for the manipulation, management and presentation of laboratory data
- • Good written and verbal communication skills
- • Ability to communicate complex information and results to other healthcare professionals
- • Ability to supervise more junior members of staff
Other relevant requirements
Essential criteria
- • Able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team and face the challenge of conflicting priorities, concentrate on several aspects of a complex situation with frequent urgent interruptions
- • Have a commitment to CPD and professional development
- • Ability to concentrate for long periods to carry out tests or authorise results
- • Able to work with accuracy and diligence and with attention to detail
- • Flexible
- • Required to use VDU for protracted periods and short periods of light effort
- • Required to work in an area of biological risk, frequently exposed to both biological and chemical hazards, contact with body fluids and faecal material
- • High degree of precision and hand eye co-ordination for use of analytical instrumentation
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Kirsopp
- Job title
- Immunology and Protein Reference Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082666182
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