Senior Biomedical Scientist: Rapid COVID

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Point of Care Testing (POCT) Team within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services offer Partnered Trusts an on-site, Rapid Respiratory Service that tests for Influenza, RSV and COVID with a fast turn around.
The potholder will oversee services at the six hospital sites within the Berkshire Surrey Pathology network of hospitals including:
Frimley Health - (Wexham Park and Frimley Park Hospitals),
Royal Surrey County Hospital - Guildford
Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading
Ashford and St Peters Hospitals – Chertsey
East Surrey Hospital - Reigate
The post-holder will be an HCPC-registered, enthusiastic, knowledgeable and skilled Biomedical Scientist, with a background in a pathology discipline relevant to POCT, preferably with POCT and Microbiology experience.
They will lead in the provision of efficient, effective and reliable Rapid Respiratory services to users within the BSPS network.
This is a fixed-term contract ending 31/03/2025, will the possibility of extension.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for more than 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust will act as the employing authority.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
Frimley Health have three core values. 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 .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
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