Job summary
- Main area
- Pathology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Includes working evenings, nights and weekends)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To cover 24/7 rota)
- Job ref
- 190-8953-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rotherham
- Town
- Rotherham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/04/2025
Employer heading
Specialist Biomedical Scientist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
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Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in a place to take your career to the next level? Would you like to join a friendly, progressive, innovative team and play a part in the transformation of pathology services across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw? Do you want to work in a fully UKAS-accredited, modern laboratory environment where you can make a difference?
The successful candidate will be required to participate on the 24/7 shift rota and undertake a wide range of complex analytical procedures, performing a range of manual, semi-automated and automated tests using scientific knowledge and experience to comment upon and validate results in line with ISO 15189.Ìý
Main duties of the job
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To carry out complex analytical and processing procedures. • To be responsible for the production of accurate and timely Laboratory testing. • To maintain high scientific and technical standards. • Promote and maintain a high standard of relevant education and training. • Adhere to all Trust, SYBP and Departmental Policies. • To stimulate and take part in scientific and technical developments.Ìý
Working for our organisation
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You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives. STHFT operates with a budget of £1.2 bn, has a workforce of over 18,500 employees, covers five hospital sites, provides care from over forty community settings, and has an excellent reputation for research.
As an organisation we value and respect our staff and the community we serve. We provide excellent staff benefits; this includes commitment to professional development but also many initiatives to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Pathology Partnership are invested in training, developing, and supporting staff in all aspects including academic courses from certificates of achievement, registration, specialist and higher specialist IBMS portfolios, apprenticeships and leadership and management qualifications. We pride ourselves in enabling opportunity across all our sites to develop staff and provide a strong and sustained service for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for the maximum period of 12 months. Where there is potential, the secondment/fixed term contract may finish early, or in the first instance, the secondment/fixed term contract may be extended due to the internal/external secondment of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and secondments in relation to the substantive post holder.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
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Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- IBMS accredited BSC in Biomedical Sciences or equivalent
- Registered with HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist
- IBMS Specialist Diploma in a relevant specialist subject
- Commitment to complete and maintain Mandatory Training and required Laboratory competencies
- Commitment to continuous professional development required to maintain HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continued CPD including relevant courses with regards to H&S, leadership, quality or training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with a range of laboratory techniques
- Detailed understanding of job content
- Ability to work with other colleagues to improve and develop working practices
- Discipline specific NHS experience in a UKAS accredited laboratory (Blood Sciences/Haematology/Blood Transfusion) laboratory)
- Multi – disciplinary awareness
- Experience with a wide range of laboratory techniques in use across discipline
- Experience working within a laboratory providing local, regional or national tertiary reference facilities
- Experience in the implementation of new methodologies and /or equipment
- Experience with the UKAS accreditation process
- Experience in demonstrating leadership qualities
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Keyboard and basic IT skills
- Have an awareness of Health & Safety issues
- Can communicate effectively with staff of all grades
- Evidence of effective time management skills and with a methodical approach
- Evidence of good manual dexterity
- Able to follow and work to SOP and Policy
- Ability to work individually and part of a team.
- Maintains composure in pressurised situations
- Ability to plan and prioritise allocated work
- Ability to concentrate for extended periods of time whilst performing scientific analysis
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Understand and follow clear instructions.
- Participation in weekend and evening work and out of hours shifts as required. This includes participation in a 24/7 shift pattern.
- Commitment to role
Values and Behaviours (PROUD)
Essential criteria
- Patients first - Understanding of how laboratory services are part of the patient pathway and impact on patient care
- Respectful – Developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels
- Ownership – Understand the need to accept responsibility for own actions and ensure accuracy and attention to detail
- Unity – Ability to work as part of a team
- Delivery – Ability to work within defined timescales
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Perkins
- Job title
- Blood Bank Manager - Rotherham
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01709 424088
- Additional information
Emma Williams
Lead Haematology BMS - Rotherham
01709 424251
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