Senior Clinical Scientist
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustSearch for more jobs in Worcester
Job summary
Main duties of the job
This role is backfill for maternity cover and will provide additional support to the duty biochemistry team. As a core role this will include interpreting results and advising hospital doctors, general practitioners, nurses, midwives and other health care professionals on all aspects of the laboratory service. This also includes recommendations on appropriateness of tests to be performed, production of clinical guidelines and the implementation of follow up tests and advice on how treatment may affect biochemical tests.
As an addition it will also involve leading on manual testing at the Alexandra Hospital as well as helping to support protein electrophoresis and POCT.
Job responsibilities
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester with laboratories at the Worcester and Redditch sites.
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
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