Clinical Scientist, Band 7

Frimley Health Nhs Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified Clinical Biochemistry practitioner/scientist to join the Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) network in Slough. You will deliver routine and specialist laboratory services, support clinicians, and contribute to service improvements in a multidisciplinary team.

You will teach and train colleagues and healthcare professionals, ensuring accurate results and high-quality patient care, with opportunities to develop expertise and

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Provide a scientific and clinical service: You will be expected to work as a qualified Clinical Biochemistry practitioner and provide laboratory support to doctors and other healthcare professionals across the BSPS network.
• Performing and reviewing biochemical investigations.
• Ensuring results are accurate, timely and clinically appropriate.
• Responding to clinical enquiries and providing scientific advice.
• Following laboratory SOPs, quality procedures and patient-safety requirements.
• Working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Help develop and verify new assays this is an important technical responsibility.
• You could be involved in introducing a new laboratory test or analyser method.
• Reviewing the scientific evidence for the assay.
• Testing its analytical performance.
• Assessing precision, accuracy, sensitivity and other performance characteristics.
• Comparing a new method with an existing method.
• Documenting the verification/validation work.

Education

BSc Degree in Relevant Speciality

Scientific Training Programme for Clinical Scientists (incl Masters)

HCPC State Registration as Clinical Scientist

Evidence of CPD

Part 1 FRCPath

UKAS requirements for laboratory

Experience of managing and motivating a team

Experience of working in a busy environment

Willing to engage with and learn from peers

Leadership and management skills

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations

Job description

Job summary

Qualified Clinical Biochemistry practitioner/scientist working within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS).

We are looking for the right person who can provide routine and specialist laboratory services, support clinicians, develop expertise, and contribute to service improvements.

Deliver a safe, high-quality Clinical Biochemistry service: You would work as part of a multidisciplinary laboratory team, ensuring patient results are accurate, reliable and produced safely.

Provide scientific and clinical support: You would support doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals by providing advice and interpreting or discussing laboratory results where appropriate.

Teaching and training: The role involves helping to teach and train colleagues, students and other healthcare professionals in your area of expertise.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a scientific and clinical service: You will be expected to work as a qualified Clinical Biochemistry practitioner and provide laboratory support to doctors and other healthcare professionals across the BSPS network.
• This could include:
• Performing and reviewing biochemical investigations.
• Ensuring results are accurate, timely and clinically appropriate.
• Responding to clinical enquiries and providing scientific advice.
• Following laboratory SOPs, quality procedures and patient-safety requirements.
• Working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Help develop and verify new assays this is an important technical responsibility.
• You could be involved in introducing a new laboratory test or analyser method.
• This may involve:
• Reviewing the scientific evidence for the assay.
• Testing its analytical performance.
• Assessing precision, accuracy, sensitivity and other performance characteristics.
• Comparing a new method with an existing method.
• Documenting the verification/validation work.

Why Join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust?

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.

We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Job responsibilities

Managerial Responsibilities:

• To have knowledge of managerial processes within BSPS to have good awareness of Trust Policies and how they relate to staff and service of the department.
• To use that knowledge for the benefit of the clinical and scientific service.
• To investigate, with more senior staff and management, where current processes and/or policies act against the delivery of an efficient service or counter to the interest of patients.
• To propose and develop solutions, changes to policy and service practice improvements to resolve those issues.
• To attend and actively contribute to departmental meetings related to management, service development, clinical policy development and quality management.
• To contribute to the development and implement policies and procedures in line with guidelines from the profession, Department of Health, NICE, and UKAS ISO 15189 standards as delegated by the Head of Department. To contribute to the interpretation of those guidelines and development of associated local policies.
• To contribute to the evaluation of analytical equipment, systems of work and new methodologies.
• To use the laboratory database and associated software to locate appropriate patient and laboratory data, provide interpretation, resolve and correct erroneous information.
• To undertake quality audit and contribute to the development of the departments quality management system.
• Supervise and train, as necessary, less experienced staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Degree in Relevant Speciality
• Completion (or expected to complete within 5 months) the Scientific Training Programme for Clinical Scientists, including Masters in relevant specialist subject.
• Health Care Professions Council State Registration as a Clinical Scientist (or expected to complete registration within 6 months).
• Evidence of CPD.
• Part 1 FRCPath
• Experience of UKAS requirements for laboratory.
• Experience of managing and motivating a team.
• Used to working in a busy environment.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
• Highly motivated with ability to influence and inspire others.
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• A thorough clinical and technical knowledge of testing in chosen specialist discipline
• Good leadership and management skills.
• Conversant with Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations and other Health and Safety regulations as applied to the clinical laboratory.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Clinical Scientist, Band 7 Slough, United Kingdom