1 Mabledon Place, London
From £50,000 DOE
Job Title: Senior Biomedical Scientist
Department: Immunology
Location: 1 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AX
Contract /Hours: Permanent/37.5
Salary range: From £50,000 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.
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)

We have a combined Immunology/Virology & Enterics service offered within our Blood Sciences department. The laboratory is clinically led and UKAS accredited, offering a range of specialist techniques, both automated and manual, including testing samples on Phadia 250 & 2500, Vidas3, Agility, Bioplex 2000, Diasorin XL, Gemini, AIX1000, Agility and Helios analysers. We are looking for an experienced Senior Biomedical Scientist to join our dedicated and friendly Immunology team. The selected Senior BMS will be required to work in all sections, including weekends, and have extensive experience reading Hep 2, LKS, ANCA and Organ Specific Slides, running of immunoblots assays, Processing samples in Allergy and autoimmune sections. They must also have experience to review SOP, managing incidents, completing audits and prepare the department for ongoing UKAS inspections, among other duties.
The ideal candidate will have an MSc and have completed their training in immunology, as well as a minimum 3 years working experience, post HCPC registration.
They should be a competent user of the Phadia instruments and experienced reader of IFA Slides for ANA, ANCA, LKS, Crithidia, EMA and Organ specific antibodies.
Experience in staff supervision, assay verification, audits and incident management would be an added benefit. Candidates will be paid at a level appropriate to their training and experience.
The department is located in central London with state of the art UKAS accredited facilities, well equipped with the latest technologies providing a robust and efficient service to both public and private sector. The department has IBMS approval for training, where CPD is supported and actively encouraged.

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

• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual 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 – 23/28 days
• Flexible working hours – we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule

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.