Biomedical Scientist

at  Health Services Laboratories HSL

ABOUT US:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)

*• No banding restrictions: *As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.

• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days
• Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working wee

As a BMS within the department you could find yourself working on a number of cutting edge techniques in the daily running of the laboratory, this includes working in a state of the art CL3 laboratory, carrying out Rapid Diagnostic Methods, the chance to attend consultant lead seminars and case studies, and the chance to work with the extensive range of samples processed at the Halo.
The main duties of a BMS include but are not limited to, performing Real Time PCR assays, using the BD Phoenix system for automated identification and susceptibility testing, working on the BD KIESTRA TLA and MALDI TOF systems, operating Beckman Coulter and Copan instrumentation and analysers such as SediMax, AutionMax and EntericBio.
Other responsibilities will include querying specimens for microbiological investigations and carrying out laboratory testing according to defined protocols, to ensure that specimen and request form details are correct and discuss ambiguous test requests with senior scientists or clinicians and to answer enquiries from health care professionals at the hospital or in the community.
Within infection sciences staff are encouraged to bring forth their own ideas and suggestions for service improvement and there is a strong focus on promoting a task-orientated culture aimed at supporting confidence and staff empowerment.
The laboratory is also undertaking a number of projects to support and promote a continuous process of development and improvement. BMS staff, alongside others, are offered opportunities to partake in project work and undertake a number of training activities, both of which are intended to develop initiative and incentive throughout the department as a whole.
We are looking for people that want to make a difference, candidates with sound analytical skills, capable of assessing any situation from a variety of perspectives. Someone who is willing to take responsibility and go that bit further in order to provide the world-class pathology service we aim to maintain.
Upon completion of departmental competencies Proficient Biomedical Scientists are rewarded with a salary of up to £50,000. HSL also complete annual performance related salary reviews and offer a competitive annual leave allowance.
At HSL, there is potential to work alternative working hours that suit you. Whilst an amount of late and weekend shift work will be required, the Flexible Working scheme does offer staff the opportunity to negotiate a shift pattern that benefits both HSL and the individual.

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related salary review

*• No banding restrictions: *As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.

• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days
• Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.