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Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Histopathology / Cellular Pathology

Job details
Posting date: 30 October 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 29 November 2024
Location: Ipswich, IP4 5PD
Company: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6764910/432-HR1565-24

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Summary

A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.


At Ipswich Hospital we are looking for a Specialist Biomedical Scientist in Histopathology/Cellular Pathology.

You will be required to have a HCPC registration and have achieved your specialist portfolio in Cellular Pathology.

You will be working for a busy, high volume and friendly team who have UKAS accreditation. We are a team that will support you in your training and development.

We are looking for you to have UK based lab experience for this role.

For more information please visit:About our Pathology Service

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.

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.
• Processes investigations in the department
• Provides advice to clinicians as to appropriateness of tests and timescales
• Provides specialist service e.g. training, problem solving for specialist requirement
• Work independently and lead on specialist area as directed by Lead BMS
• Acts as mentor for more junior scientific and support staff
• To work flexibly in reflection of service needs this may include an extended working day.
• Supervises and/or trains less experienced staff in own area of work
• 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
• Maintain and promote professional image of the pathology department.
• Where required, to lead and supervise a section of the laboratory.

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

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 the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, 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 17 Nov 2024

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