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Specialist Biomedical Scientist Clinical Chemistry (DBTH)

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Profession
Health science services
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
25 Nov 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
12 Nov 2025

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 Chemistry teams at the Doncaster and Bassetlaw sites.

The Chemistry site at Doncaster has a full track system whilst Bassetlaw is a multidisciplinary Lab.

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 Specialist Biomedical Scientist providing scientific services to patients as an aid to clinical diagnosis. The successful candidate will be required to participate on the 24/7 shift rota 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 post-registration and ideally have experience of working out of hours. Candidates must be in possession of an IBMS specialist portfolio in either Chemistry or Blood Sciences, or equivalent to be appointed at 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.