Advanced Biomedical Scientist - Microbiology *£2,000 Incentive*

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Ipswich is seeking an Advanced Biomedical Scientist to join their Microbiology service. The role focuses on leading a team, ensuring high-quality testing, and providing specialist advice to clinicians. Candidates must be enthusiastic, professional, and ready to contribute significantly to patient care. The position offers excellent career development and support, along with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Unsocial hours payments (where applicable)

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Access to NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated with a focus on patient care.
• Professional, reliable, innovative, and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Lead Biomedical Scientist for a specialist area.
• Manage and coordinate day-to-day team activities.
• Lead service improvement initiatives.
• Process specialist investigations with quality results.
• Advise clinicians on test appropriateness and timelines.
• Provide specialist training and troubleshooting.
• Work flexibly to meet service needs, including extended hours.

Job description

This post attracts a recruitment incentive of £2,000 pro rata (conditions apply)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Biomedical Scientist who is professional, reliable, innovative and flexible to join our friendly, hardworking team to assist with the running of the Microbiology service at Ipswich Hospital.

Our Microbiology laboratory provides a full microbiological service for the diagnosis of infection including bacteriology, serology, parasitology, TB and molecular sections. We consist of over 50 members of staff and work closely with our other ESNEFT Microbiology laboratory situated in Colchester, performing a wide repertoire of both traditional and automated testing.

Our vision is to deliver an innovative, high‑performing service that is focussed on high‑quality results for effective patient care.

We are clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be realised by working together to meet the needs of our service users and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals.

We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best pathology staff. You will play an integral part in the development of the Microbiology team and their careers.

Join us to develop your career and help us achieve our vision.

Responsibilities

• Responsible as lead Biomedical Scientist for a specialist area
• Manages and coordinates the day to day activities of the team
• Leads on service improvement
• Processes specialist investigations and is responsible for standard and quality of results
• Provides specialist advice to clinicians as to appropriateness of tests and timescales.
• Provides specialist service e.g. training, advanced troubleshooting, problem solving for specialist area.
• Works flexibly in reflection of service needs which may include an extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hour, 7 day per week service.
• The work of the service brings staff into constant contact with human body fluids, tissues and hazardous chemicals. This may include blood, pus, urine, faeces, and respiratory secretions.

Our pathology department is part of the collaborative East Coast Pathology Network (see attached document).

About our Pathology Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrydUl_c5w

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Whittaker Job title: Microbiology Laboratory Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01473 703750