Biomedical Scientist Mircrobiology

NHS Professionals Limited; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Professionals Limited is recruiting a Biomedical Scientist Microbiology to join Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The role covers 37.5 hours per week in a 24-hour service with weekend/night shifts, requiring commitment to the shift rota and an orientation period.

Key duties include ensuring accurate test results, maintaining quality standards, mentoring staff, and contributing to departmental training and governance activities.

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist.
• Strong post-registration diagnostic pathology laboratory experience.
• Experience in bacteriological culture, sensitivity interpretation, standard diagnostic methods, and CPD participation.

Responsibilities

• Assess personal knowledge, skills, and development needs relevant to the post, taking responsibility for continuous professional development (CPD).
• Provide induction, mentoring, and practical training of colleagues, acting as training coordinator where appropriate.
• Identify hazards, implement risk-management measures, and respond to emergencies; protect specimen integrity and data security.

Skills

HCPC-registered

Post-registration experience

Bacteriology

CPD

Job description

We havean exciting opportunity for a Biomedical Scientist Microbiology atBuckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to join the Microbiology Department atStoke Mandeville Hospital. You will be responsible for performing specialistmicrobiology and serology investigations in accordance with departmentalprocedures, professional standards, and established laboratory protocols toensure an efficient and effective diagnostic service. You will be managing andsupporting laboratory activities, communicating with clinical and laboratorystaff, GPs, nursing teams, and other colleagues to support the smooth runningof the department. You will also be expected to take on team leadershipresponsibilities during weekends and bank holidays, working under the overalldirection of the Lead and Senior Biomedical Scientists. The role is 37.5 hoursper week within a 24-hour laboratory service, requiring participation in theshift rota, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays, following a suitableorientation period.

Main duties of the job

As aBiomedical Scientist Microbiology, you will be responsible for ensuring theaccuracy and reliability of test results within your designated work section,maintaining quality standards and complying with relevant departmentalpolicies. You will be managing the communication of unusual and abnormalfindings to appropriate colleagues and providing technical advice to externalclients regarding test results and the appropriate use of laboratory services.You will be supporting effective information sharing by attending staffmeetings, sharing relevant updates with colleagues, and using informationtechnology appropriately. You will also be responsible for safeguardingconfidential patient information, maintaining accurate and complete workrecords, following departmental procedures for telephone enquiries and messagehandling, and escalating any issues or complaints to the appropriate person.Additionally, you will be actively participating in at least one departmentalgroup, such as Quality, Health and Safety, Training, or Equipment Key User,contributing to the maintenance and improvement of departmental standards andpractices.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities

• Toassess personal knowledge, skills, and development needs relevant to the post,taking responsibility for continuous professional development (CPD),maintaining up-to-date development records, and actively participating in theannual appraisal process to support professional growth.
• To applyspecialist expertise in the induction, mentoring, and practical training ofcolleagues, acting as a nominated training coordinator where appropriate, andevaluating learning activities to identify their effectiveness and recommendimprovements to future training.
• Toidentify and assess potential hazards associated with laboratory activities,implement appropriate risk-management measures, and respond promptly toemergencies by obtaining assistance when necessary. You will also beresponsible for recognising risks to workplace security and specimen integrityand recommending appropriate corrective actions.
• Tocritically evaluate existing laboratory procedures and contribute suggestionsfor service development, discussing proposed changes with colleagues,implementing agreed improvements within specified timescales, and helping teammembers understand and adapt to revised working practices.
• Toundertake biomedical investigations by selecting suitable methods according todepartmental protocols, verifying specimen identity and suitability, andprocessing samples according to their urgency and risk. You will be responsiblefor applying appropriate quality-control criteria, interpreting findings,generating laboratory reports, operating equipment competently, and disposingof specimens in accordance with established protocols.
• Touphold professional standards by complying with relevant legislation, Trustpolicies, financial instructions, professional codes of conduct, andinformation governance requirements. You will also be responsible for promotingequality, diversity, and respectful treatment, ensuring accurate dataprocessing and secure information storage, using resources efficiently, andparticipating in rostered unsocial hours and bank holiday working following therequired orientation period.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist.
• Strong post-registration diagnostic pathology laboratory experience.
• Experience in bacteriological culture, sensitivity interpretation, standard diagnostic methods, and CPD participation.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.