Registered Clincial Scientist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other Requirements

  Comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions

• Other Requirements

  All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users

• Other Requirements

  Complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies

• Other Requirements

  The post-holder requires highly developed physical skills where accuracy is crucial

• Other Requirements

  Able to maintain concentration for prolonged intervals on complex activities despite frequent interruptions

• Other Requirements

  The post holder will work for a substantial proportion of the working time in a clinical laboratory environment

• Other Requirements

  The post holder will occasionally be exposed to highly unpleasant working conditions - processing of tissue/body fluids

• Other Requirements

  There is occasional requirement for processing of high-risk biological specimens (eg hepatitis C, HIV)

• Teaching and Training

  Participate in the teaching and training of personnel working in or seconded to the HMDS Laboratory; e.g. Trainee Clinical Scientists, undergraduate project students, registrars

• Teaching and Training

  The post holder will be responsible for the mentoring and training of Clinical Scientist STP trainees

• Teaching and Training

  Attend relevant scientific conferences and workshops

• Professional Knowledge

  Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of haemato-oncology in general with particular reference to own caseload

• Professional Knowledge

  Able to relate service provision to national best practice guidelines

• Professional Knowledge

  Ensure service standards meet national guidelines, including UK National External Quality Assurance Scheme recommendations

• Professional Knowledge

  Following departmental UKAS Accreditation policy by producing and maintaining standard operating procedures

• Technical and IT Skills

  Able to use and manipulate laboratory computer systems and standard software packages

• Technical and IT Skills

  Good hand eye co-ordination for fine manipulation of instrumentation

• Technical and IT Skills

  Perform laboratory technical work as required, for example as part of a development project or troubleshooting of services

• Technical and IT Skills

  Able to troubleshoot under pressure, for instance while performing prenatal or predictive tests for adult-onset genetic diseases, with limited reporting timescales

• Leadership and Management

  Responsibility for scheduling day-to-day case management of technicians and trainee scientists including advice and troubleshooting

• Leadership and Management

  Provide direction and support for scientific and technical staff within the laboratory as required

• Leadership and Management

  To lead in a defined clinically relevant area, e.g. internal audit, monitoring of response to user feedback, training

• Leadership and Management

  Makes active efforts to influence the work of the team, takes responsibility for making appropriate decisions

• Leadership and Management

  Delegates appropriate tasks and responsibility

• Leadership and Management

  Allows others the authority to accomplish tasks effectively

• Leadership and Management

  Consults appropriately and seeks relevant information, including financial, before making recommendations

• Leadership and Management

  Sets deadlines and timescales for managing their own workload

• Leadership and Management

  Plans actions to achieve objectives to schedule and produces detailed project plans

• Leadership and Management

  Anticipates problems and difficulties and makes contingency plans

• Qualifications and Training

  Be actively preparing for FRC Path and maintain training record

• Qualifications and Training

  Comply with Trust mandatory training requirements

• Qualifications and Training

  Maintain competency records for relevant work areas

• Personal Qualities and Values

  To maintain self control in difficult and challenging situations

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Remains objective and rational when dealing with emotive issues

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Stands up for their own point of view, even against opposition, and speaks with Sincerity and conviction

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Shows enthusiasm for their own initiatives and acknowledges their own successes

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Makes conscious choices about their own personal development identifies their own strengths and weaknesses and orchestrates appropriate development opportunities

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Understands the long-term strategy and objectives of their own department taking into account of the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Demonstration of honesty, integrity, self-confidence and self-control

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Quality focus: Maintenance of highest standards in laboratory tests and reports, with reference to best practice guidelines, National External Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS), Clinical Audit, Internal Audit and UKAS. Accreditation

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Attention to detail: Observance of high laboratory standards; operating according to up to date Standard Operating Procedures

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Patient orientation: Relating activities back to patient care; Clinical Audit

• Personal Qualities and Values

  Open to change: Readiness to respond in a timely fashion to research, technological, strategic and financial change in this rapidly changing field

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Responsible for delivery of laboratory scientific service for specific diseases and others as required

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Analyse and interpret results of tests, which are often be highly complex or non-routine, and consider further investigations

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Use of specialist tools to process laboratory data, compare results and interpret data

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Interpreting results in the context of patient clinical features, published literature, databases and other pathology tests

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Be able to use these results to write clinically relevant interpretation as part of an integrated report, taking national and professional guidelines or equivalent standards into account

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Discuss individual patient cases at regular multi-disciplinary (MDT) with clinicians from a range of clinical specialities to determine appropriate testing and interpretation of results

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Independently discuss, advise and challenge Consultants and other users, on the appropriateness of tests and the interpretation of results, which may be complex, sensitive or contentious

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Able to identify R & D needs in own area and participate in R & D activities

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Able to participate in internal audit activities

• Clinical and Scientific Experience

  Able to participate in clinical audit and present reports

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Able to prepare and present complex scientific and clinical information at local, national or international conferences

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Establish and maintain effective networks with professional and clinical colleagues within and beyond the Trust

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Makes effective presentations and speaks confidently in front of a group, including large group or audience, and at national and international meetings of peers

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Relates well to people at all levels and backgrounds

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Uses rational argument and data to persuade others

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Manages conflict diplomatically and calmly

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Establishes and responds to user needs and requirements

• Communication and Presentation Skills

  Shares information openly with other team members and works in partnership with others to solve a problem

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Monitor and continuously reviews service processes and outcomes and looks for ways of improving service quality

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Responsibility for reporting and publishing any research findings arising from laboratory investigations

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Ongoing development of HMDS services for specific diseases, incorporating technological and scientific developments and re-addressing clinical need

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Open to new approaches and copes with changing targets

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Develops and initiates strategies in response to change

• Quality Improvement, Research and Development

  Consistently attempts to try learning in the workplace and from experiences