Senior Biomedical Scientist

Job summary

Position: Senior Biomedical Scientist

Location: St Marys Hospital, with close links to Queen Alexandra Hospital

Working Hours:37.5 hours per week, Monday Friday, 8 am 4 pm (flexibility required)

Join Our Dynamic Mohs Team at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust!

Are you passionate about making a difference in cancer care? Do you thrive in a multidisciplinary environment, working alongside Mohs surgeons, histopathologists, maxillofacial, plastics, and oculoplastic surgeons to treat complex facial skin tumours? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Why Join Us?

At PHU, we pride ourselves on delivering excellence in care to our patients and communities. As a Senior Biomedical Scientist, you will play a crucial role in our Mohs team, contributing to essential cancer services and patient care. Here's what makes this opportunity special:

Patient-Facing Opportunities

• Direct Impact: Work closely with clinicians during Mohs procedures, preparing, inking, orientating, staining, and cutting frozen tissue samples to assist in the diagnosis and mapping of skin tumours.
• Intraoperative Involvement: Be present in the operating room, providing real-time support and ensuring accurate results for our patients.

What We Offer

• Flexible Working:We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working options where possible.
• Supportive Environment:Join a team dedicated to your personal and career development, with a commitment to investing in your health and wellbeing

Main duties of the job

Training and Development

• Mohs service development: Train and supervise other Biomedical Scientists in highly specialised Mohs technique
• Mentorship Role: Maintain a link to the Cellular Pathology department on the Queen Alexandra site, helping to train and supervise Specialist Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners, and Medical Laboratory Assistants, sharing your expertise and fostering their growth.
• Continuous Learning: Stay at the forefront of advances in Cellular Pathology and Mohs techniques, with access to a wide variety of training and development opportunities.
• Opportunities for All: While we are looking for someone with the required skills, we may consider candidates with limited or no prior Mohs training who demonstrate a strong passion and willingness to learn.

Job responsibilities

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the South Coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.