Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Haematology & Blood Transfusion

Job overview

East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Biomedical Scientist to join us in Haematology & Blood Transfusion at Ipswich Hospital.

You will join a friendly and busy MHRA and UKAS compliant hospital laboratory who are committed to the training and development of our staff.  We are IBMS accredited training laboratory for registration and specialist portfolios.

You must have completed your haematology specialist portfolio. Once competent, experienced staff will participate in the out of hours roster which attracts a night rate enhancement for lone working.

We are equipped with Grifols, Sysmex XNs and ACL TOPS analysers. Our LIMS is Lab Centre. Previous working knowledge of these technologies would be an advantage.

Our vision is to deliver innovations, high-performing pathology services that is focussed on our customers and delivers high quality and fully compliant services.

We are clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be achieved by working together to meet our service users needs and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals.

We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best pathology staff. We encourage our staff to undertake internal and external courses to aid their development. You will play an integral part in helping to train our junior staff to develop their skills and careers.

About our Pathology Service https://youtu.be/FBrydUl_c5w

Main duties of the job

Specialist Biomedical Scientist Job Information

Our pathology department is part of the collaborative East Coast Pathology Network (see attached document)

You will enjoy a varied range of responsibilities from maintaining the quality management system and UKAS accreditation, training and supervision of less experienced members of staff, validating and authorising results and most importantly providing a safe quality service for our patients.

You will be expected to resolve complex equipment or process problems and perform manual, semi-automated and fully automated laboratory investigations, including specialist investigations, within defined service area accurately and efficiently.

You will participate in the day to day management of stock control and usage. This may include maintaining Blood Transfusion stock levels and records and monitor usage to ensure efficient use where appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.