Biomedical Scientist

UK Health Security Agency; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

At the Reference Services Division - Colindale (RSDC) laboratory teams undertake services of complex and highly skilled techniques which often require nationally or internationally unique capabilities or facilities. RSDC are required to provide authoritative, final and validated analysis for complex clinical or food microbiological/virological problems and be innovative in driving microbiological/virological methodology developments and standards. They have a key role in provision of expert advice to government, national and international agencies, risk assessment for new and emerging microbiological/virological threats and play an important role in teaching and training organism specific and subject matter expertise to all grades of professional medical, nursing, scientific and technical staff. Design of national microbiological/virological surveillance programmes and sampling strategies and outbreak detection and control are part of day-to-day work of reference laboratories.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical and Scientific Duties
• Research and development
• Health and Safety Quality Information Technology
• Support Services
• Equipment

This list is not exhaustive.

Key Working Relationships

The post holder will develop working relationships and communicate regularly with a wide range of individuals, clinical and non-clinical, internal and external to UKHSA. This will include:

Internal

• Medical, scientific and other staff throughout the Unit, BRD and Colindale.
• Communicates within AMRHAI regarding procedures, results, planning and organization.

External

• External collaborators and other bodies including NHS staff and other national and international users, commercial companies and professional groups, grant funding bodies and organizations as required.

We pride ourselves as an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organization for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.