Digital Biomedical Support Worker
| Posting date: | 02 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £28,392.00 to £31,157.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28392.00 - £31157.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2026 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9249-26-0249 |
Summary
The applicant will undergo a period of training then will work unsupervised once deemed competent. 1. Operation of the Philips digital slide scanner and IMS, assisting with the digital workflow, assigning cases on the IMS to consultants, QC checks of images to check for any issues, maintaining and cleaning scanner, deputise for digital lead in their absence. 2. Preparation of case for discussion at multi-disciplinary team meetings (MDTs). This includes identification of the appropriate cases, retrieval of slides from archive, data entry onto Excel spreadsheets, recording of audit data on completion of the meeting, and filing completed MDT lists. 3. Sorting of cases to be sent to other hospitals for further testing/expert opinion/review. Logging all material sent and returned, to ensure a full audit trail is available for every specimen. 4. Respond and reply to department emails when appropriate. 5. Reception of specimens. Reception includes collection of specimens from pathology reception, data matching between specimen containers and request forms, coding samples, sorting into the correct work stream, and identification of specimens which must be rejected. Rejected samples must be resolved and logged. 6. Booking in of patient requests onto the pathology IT system. Please see the attached Job Description for further details.