Senior Biomedical Scientist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Biomedical Scientist, youll:

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership of the Blood Transfusion laboratory, ensuring safe, effective and timely service delivery.
• Act as the senior operational lead on shift, managing workload, staffing, escalation and service pressures.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with MHRA, UKAS/ISO 15189 and Trust policies and procedures.
• Supervise, support and develop Biomedical Scientists and support staff, including training and competency oversight.
• Maintain oversight of quality management activities, including incidents, investigations and audits.
• Ensure service continuity while other senior staff are released to deliver major service improvement and quality projects

Job responsibilities

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers,home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.