Senior Biomedical Scientist

at  Health Services Laboratories HSL

From £48,000 - £57,750 DOE
Job Title: Senior Biomedical Scientist
Location: Watford Rd, Harrow HA1 3UJ
*Salary range: *From £48,000 - £57,750 DOE

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

*• 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

HCPC Registered Senior Biomedical Scientist required to work within the Haematology and Blood Transfusion departments at Northwick Park and Central Middlesex Hospital’s. The post is for Senior BMS with Haematology and Blood Transfusion experience. Applicants will need to have a minimum of 3 years experience as a state registered BMS. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in all of the shifts to support the needs of the 24/7 requirements of the service as allocated by the Head of Haematology and Blood Transfusion Laboratories. The ideal candidate will contribute to providing a professional and technical laboratory service working effectively as part of the managerial team in the department. The candidate will be expected to manage daily routine laboratory duties and will be expected to work independently to maintain efficient service.
Main duties: The Laboratory is responsible for servicing the Haematology and Blood Transfusion pathology needs of a large GP catchment area, with Maternity, Haematology Oncology and large surgical variety, including St Marks Colorectal surgery. There is also a large company Haemoglobinopathy referral centre, involved in Neonatal screening and as such the Blood Film Morphology seen is extremely varied with training second to none. The Blood Transfusion laboratory has recently had new Grifols analyzers on both sites and the team works alongside the Trust Transfusion Practitioners, Lead BT Clinicians and the Hospital Transfusion Team to promote Patient Blood Management. Main duties will include rotation between Haematology and Blood Transfusion across both sites covering the 24/7 service, candidates will be expected to participate in all of the duties, including night shifts.
Senior duties in Haematology and Blood Transfusion will include competency training, referral results, queries from clinicians, maintaining all analyzers, checking incompletes, ensuring all paperwork has been completed correctly. Other responsibilities will include incident investigations, SOPs writing and reviews, audits, change control validations, as well as preparation for UKAS/MHRA. The candidate will be responsible for managing the daily duties of the department including staff and stock, analyzer function, trending, temperature monitoring, IQC review and EQA submission. Candidates will also be expected to work on the bench to support BMS/ AP/MLA staff when necessary or during staff shortage.

At TDL 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.