Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology) | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7326457/214-CSTO-7326457 |
Summary
Exciting Opportunity: Band 5 Biomedical Scientist – Clinical Microbiology
Are you a passionate and driven HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist looking to take the next step in your career? The Department of Clinical Microbiology is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Biomedical Scientist to join our dynamic and supportive team.
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care and laboratory practice. The ideal candidate will be HCPC registered and have successfully completed the IBMS Registration Portfolio. Experience working in a Clinical Microbiology laboratory is essential.
In return, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking department where your skills and ideas are valued. You’ll work alongside experienced professionals in a collaborative environment, with opportunities for continued professional development and career progression.
To perform a range of bacteriological, serological and molecular specialised microbiological testing, and use interpretative skills to provide reports to clinicians that detail the causative organism(s) of infection, and interpret and report the antibiotics susceptibility results to aid patient treatment.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
The Department has full UKAS accreditation , HCPC/IBMS training status and CPD participation is actively encouraged. The Department processes around 400,000 specimens a year and is in a modern laboratory that opened in 2006. The Department’s equipment includes BACTEC FX, MALDI, MGIT, iQ200, VIDAS 3, GeneXpert, Cobas E801, BioFire FilmArray, Adagio, and MicroScan.
CliniSys WinPath Enterprise is the LIMS used within the laboratory and most areas within the Trust and GP surgeries are using Sunquest ICE for test requesting.
The Department will routinely be working 07:00 until 21:00 including weekends and public holidays. The successful applicant will be contracted to work a 24/7 Shift system, averaging 37.5 hours per week. The payment scheme is in line with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for details on the responsibilities of this position.
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Aug 2025
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