Biomedical Scientist - Microbiology | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6229202/432-HR96-24 |
Summary
Colchester Hospital Microbiology Department are looking for an experienced Microbiology Biomedical Scientist to join our well established friendly team.
You will be a HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist with a Biomedical Science BSc degree or equivalent with evidence of CPD.
Our vision is to deliver innovations, high-performing pathology services that is focussed on our customers and delivers high quality and fully compliant services.
Our service is clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be achieved by working together, while remaining close enough to our customers to meet their needs and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals.
You will be required to work flexibly in reflection of service needs which may include extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hour, 7 days per week service.
We are committed to attracting and retaining the best pathology staff and if you want to work with us to develop your own career and help us achieve our vision then we would like to hear from you.
• Undertake testing and processing of biomedical specimens, analysis and entering of results onto the compute
• Supervises and/or trains less experienced staff in own area of work and competency
• The work of the service brings staff into constant contact with human body fluids, tissues and hazardous chemicals. This may include blood, pus, urine, faeces, and respiratory secretions
• Perform manual, semi-automated and fully automated laboratory investigations within a defined service area accurately and efficiently.
• Undertake quality control procedures and the processing of quality control material as per established protocols.
• Participate in the day to day management of stock control and usage.
• Be aware of current advances and appraise new techniques.
• Evaluate, interpret and validate test results and escalate where appropriate in line with established protocols.
• Clean and maintain equipment to achieve the optimum instrument performance and maintain a clean and safe working environment.
• Perform basic troubleshooting in line with established protocols and report any faults to a senior member of staff.
• Participate in Research and Development, clinical trials and equipment testing.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024