Biomedical Scientist - Cellular Pathology
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7258305/319-7258305JA |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder will provide a range of Biomedical Scientist duties within the Cellular Pathology Dept. Their work pattern will involve rotation between the Specimen Reception/Dissection, Main Lab, and Immunocytochemistry laboratories.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The post holder will practice as a specialist registered Biomedical Scientist working effectively as part of a team providing histopathology, cytopathology and autopsy clinical technical services to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and general practitioners.
They will perform a range of scientific investigations and procedures to primarily assist in the differential diagnosis of cancer and other tissue related disease.
They will provide technical support to pathologists, clinicians and other staff to provide an efficient diagnostic service.
They will participate in the supervision, training and development of trainee biomedical scientists and medical laboratory assistants.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Typical duties include:
Specimen Receipt and booking-in.
Triage of specimens in the Reception and Dissection areas.
Assisting the dissection process.
Routine Histopathology lab duties to include embedding, microtomy, staining, and QC functions.
Running the Immunocytochemistry and Cytology laboratories on a day to day basis.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Jul 2025
The post-holder will provide a range of Biomedical Scientist duties within the Cellular Pathology Dept. Their work pattern will involve rotation between the Specimen Reception/Dissection, Main Lab, and Immunocytochemistry laboratories.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The post holder will practice as a specialist registered Biomedical Scientist working effectively as part of a team providing histopathology, cytopathology and autopsy clinical technical services to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and general practitioners.
They will perform a range of scientific investigations and procedures to primarily assist in the differential diagnosis of cancer and other tissue related disease.
They will provide technical support to pathologists, clinicians and other staff to provide an efficient diagnostic service.
They will participate in the supervision, training and development of trainee biomedical scientists and medical laboratory assistants.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Typical duties include:
Specimen Receipt and booking-in.
Triage of specimens in the Reception and Dissection areas.
Assisting the dissection process.
Routine Histopathology lab duties to include embedding, microtomy, staining, and QC functions.
Running the Immunocytochemistry and Cytology laboratories on a day to day basis.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Jul 2025
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