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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
27 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience with a range of laboratory techniques (Band 5&6)
- Experience
Detailed understanding of job content (Band 6)
- Experience
Ability to work with other colleagues to improve and develop working practices (Band 6)
- Experience
Discipline specific NHS experience in a UKAS accredited laboratory (Microbiology/Virology/Histopathology/ Bood sciences * laboratory) (Band 6)
- Experience
Multi – disciplinary awareness (Band 6)
- Experience
Experience with a wide range of laboratory techniques in use across Blood sciences (Band 6)
- Experience
Experience working within a laboratory providing local, regional or national tertiary reference facilities (Band 6)
- Experience
Experience in the implementation of new methodologies and /or equipment (Band 6)
- Experience
Experience with the UKAS accreditation process (Band 6)
- Experience
Experience in demonstrating leadership qualities (Band 6)
- Personal Qualities
Understand and follow clear instructions. (Band 6)
- Personal Qualities
Prepared to work flexibly including participation in weekend and evening work and out of hours rotas as appropritate to competency (Band 6)
- Personal Qualities
Commitment to role (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Keyboard and basic IT skills (Band 5 &6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Have an awareness of Health & Safety issues (Band 5&6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Evidence of effective time management skills and with a methodical approach (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Evidence of good manual dexterity (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Able to follow and work to SOP and Policy (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Ability to work individually and part of a team (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Maintains composure in pressurised situations (Band 6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Can communicate effectively with staff of all grades (Band 5&6)
- Skills and Knowledge
Ability to plan and prioritise allocated work (Band 6)
- Education and Qualifications
IBMS accredited BSC in Biomedical Sciences or equivalent (Band 5&6)
- Education and Qualifications
Registered with HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist (Band 5&6)
- Education and Qualifications
Completion of IBMS post graduate registration portfolio or equivalent (Band 5)
- Education and Qualifications
Commitment to complete and maintain Mandatory Training and required Laboratory competencies (Band 5&6)
- Education and Qualifications
Commitment to continuous professional development required to maintain HCPC registration (Band 6)
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Discipline specific NHS laboratory experience (Band 5)
- Experience
Multi – disciplinary awareness (Band 5)
- Experience
Experience in demonstrating leadership qualities (Band 5)
- Education and Qualifications
Evidence of continued CPD including relevant courses with regards to H&S, leadership, quality or training (Band 5&6)
Job overview
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in a place to take your career to the next level? Would you like to join a friendly, progressive, innovative team in pathology services across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw based at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals? Do you want to work in a fully UKAS-accredited, modern laboratory environment where you can make a difference?
Then read on.
The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (SYB) Pathology Network is a fully integrated network providing pathology services across five regional sites
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (DBTHFT) The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRHFT) Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) We are inviting applications from enthusiastic, driven individuals to join our Haematology teams at the Doncaster site.
SYB Pathology aims to provide the best possible service for patients and clinicians, improving health outcomes, driving research and innovation, delivering healthcare efficiencies, and ensuring a sustainable workforce, providing job satisfaction and career progression opportunities for all staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as an HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist providing scientific services to patients as an aid to clinical diagnosis. The successful candidate will be required and undertake a wide range of complex analytical procedures, performing a range of manual, semi-automated and automated tests using scientific knowledge and experience to comment upon and validate results in line with ISO 15189.
Suitable candidates will require Chemistry experience and be nearing completion of their registration portfolio and ideally have experience of working out of hours.
Please also note this vacancy is banded dependent upon applicants experience relevant to this post. The banding of the successful applicant will start at Band 5 unless applicants meet the necessary threshold of skills and experience required to start on Band 6.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Candidates should be aware that, whilst not all BMS roles within SYB Pathology network require 24/7 working, positions within the Blood Sciences services involve participation in a 24/7 rota and cross-site working across the SYB Pathology network. Please note the SYBP Pathology network includes Northern General Hospital and Royal Hallamshire Hospital for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Bassetlaw District General Hospital at Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals.
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.
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This advert is for Biomedical Scientist Chemistry with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Biomedical scientist role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Sep 2026.
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