Senior Biomedical Scientist - Biochemistry - 12 Month Fixed Term

at  Health Services Laboratories HSL

From £50,000 - £60,000 DOE
Job Title: Senior Biomedical Scientist - Biochemistry - 12 Month Fixed Term
Location: Barnet Hospittal, Wellhouse Ln, Barnet EN5 3DJ
Salary range: From £43,000 - £51,000 DOE

ABOUT US:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of providing 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, specializing in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centers. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom 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 2,700 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 into the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)

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.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities but if it is not apparent from the CV that you are living and working in the UK, please provide details of you “Work Rights” and include this in your application. On occasions we are able to provide sponsorship but it is helpful in your application that we know of your need for support in advance.

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Biochemistry team at Barnet Hospital as a Senior Biomedical Scientist. “We are looking for a candidate with a passion for training and preferably, but not essentially, experience in maintaining staff competencies, ensuring mandatory and statutory training requirements are met, experience in quality management, interpretation of external report and providing support and guidance to staff undertaking the registration and specialist portfolios. “You must be a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Biomedical and holding post graduate qualification in Blood science.
Please include details of your HCPC registration on your CV and in the application form and any relevant training experience or qualifications that might support your application.
The Clinical biochemistry Service at Barnet Hospital NHS Trust is provided by Health Services Laboratories (HSL).
The role will involve working alongside other members of the laboratory team and management, undertaking Biochemistry investigations, providing a 24/7 service. However, as a Senior Biomedical Scientist, we would see you typically working 9:00AM to 5:30PM weekdays and in the event of sickness/emergencies, you would be expected to cover late shift (12:00-20:30PM) or night shift. (20:00PM-08:00 AM)
An experienced Biomedical Scientist to lead a team of staff in a section of the department with responsibility for providing a comprehensive , high quality medicine service to all HJSL clients. The senior Biomedical Scientist must use a combination of knowledge, decision making organizational and supervisory skills to ensure that the appropriate testing is performed safely, accurately and in a timely manner, on each sample received