Biomedical Scientist – Haematology and Blood transfusion
Job Description
If You Are Looking For a BMS Position With a Desire To Work As Part Of One Of The Largest NHS Led Pathology Services In The South Of England, We Can Offer
- Innovative practices.
- Strong, personal and professional development.
- A laboratory at the forefront of the national Modernising Pathology agenda.
- Forward thinking and team orientated staff.
We can help you to achieve these by supporting your development by providing access to courses up to and including Master’s degree. In addition we support development of staff with internal and external courses for management, Health & Safety and Quality management.
Main duties of the job
You will work in rotation within all sections of the laboratory, namely General Haematology, Coagulation, Blood Transfusion. The laboratory is well equipped with Alinity H and ACL TOP analysers. Blood Transfusion utilises IBG Galileo Blood Group Analyser.
This is an exciting time within the laboratory as we are in the process of upgrading our laboratory area and analysers.
This is a full Rota position that includes working shifts, nights (including consecutive nights) and weekends.
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities.
Our laboratory has accreditation for UKAS ISO:15189 and is also accredited with MHRA, IIP and is accredited as a training laboratory by the IBMS for both registration and specialist portfolios leading to HCPC registration.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Biomedical sciences (H)
- HCPC registration in Biomedical sciences (H)
- Evidence of CPD (H)
- Specialist portfolio in haematology/BT or blood sciences
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Biomedical sciences
COMPETENCIES
Essential criteria
- Multi-tasking skills, prioritisation skills and initiative
- Team worker
- Working out of hours
PROFESSIONAL
Essential criteria
- Experience in Haematology and Blood Transfusion
- Experience in blood film morphology
Desirable criteria
- Experience in quality procedures including validation/ verification of tests and equipment
- Experience in a busy hub laboratory
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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