Clinical Scientist

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Clinical Biochemistry Department at a leading NHS Trust, where you'll play a vital role in patient care and service development. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and participation in clinical audits and MDT meetings.

Qualifications

• Registered as a clinical scientist with HCPC.
• Wide-ranging practical experience in manual and automated techniques.

Responsibilities

• Participation in Duty Biochemist rota covering clinical biochemistry.
• Provision of interpretative and advisory service to clinical staff.
• Assist in development and evaluation of laboratory procedures.

Skills

Analytical Biochemistry

Communication

Education

MSc in Clinical Biochemistry

Job description

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team in the Clinical Biochemistry Department of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You should have completed or be very near to completion of formal preregistration STP training. Ideally you will have or be very close to obtaining registration as a Clinical Scientist with the HCPC.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will become part of our dynamic clinical team of Clinical Scientists and Consultant Clinical Scientists. The role will include participation in both the Duty Biochemist rota, and the Duty Manual rota alongside input into service development, quality management, clinical audit and Multi-Disciplinary Team Meeting (MDT) attendance. There are regular journal clubs and weekly clinical case meetings that all Clinical Scientists attend to support training towards obtaining FRCPath. The trust has brilliant leadership development programmes and a QI academy, participation in both will be supported. We are part of the Southern Counties Pathology Network (SCP), where we benefit from clinical and professional interactions.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full participation in the general Duty Biochemist rota covering all aspects of clinical biochemistry and immunology. This includes interpretation of highly complex results, reporting and adding interpretative comments with implementation of further investigations and timely communication/discussion of abnormal results.

Provision of a wide-ranging interpretative and advisory service to clinical and nursing staff.

To provide scientific support to general, specialists and POCT aspects of the service, developing knowledge of the analytical techniques used in these areas.

To assist in development, evaluation and acceptance of any proposed changes in laboratory and POCT analytical procedures and practice.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc in Clinical Biochemistry
• Registered as a clinical scientist with HCPC

Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Specialist Knowledge & Experience in clinical & Analytical Biochemistry
• Wide-ranging practical experience in manual and automated techniques of analytical biochemistry
• Experience in the interpretation of a wide range of clinical biochemistry results

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria

• Ability to evaluate complex biochemical information in all aspects of clinical biochemistry
• Ability to understand & perform to a high standard, clinical & analytical tasks according to the needs of the department
• Ability to communicate verbally & in writing complex scientific information with both specialist & no-specialist staff; this includes skills to provide & receive complex data where some degree of analytical discussion &/or negotiation may be required.

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Clinical Scientist Band 7 JD (PDF, 548.3KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
• Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)