Healthcare Scientist

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking Healthcare Scientists to join their Microbiology Services Laboratory. Candidates will perform and interpret specialized tests related to blood and tissue products, contributing to patient care and safety. Opportunities for career advancement exist, including management roles. The position involves using both automated and manual methods in a busy laboratory environment, ensuring the quality and efficacy of donor screenings.

Benefits

Extensive training programs

Opportunities for career advancement

Qualifications

• Ability to perform and interpret a wide range of specialist scientific and technical procedures.
• Experience with complex and routine laboratory equipment.
• Strength in applying scientific and theoretical knowledge in a Healthcare Scientist role.

Responsibilities

• Perform and interpret tests for blood, tissue, or stem cell products.
• Conduct investigations in a microbiology reference laboratory.
• Provide operational cover during difficulties as needed.

Skills

Microbiological Testing

Automated Investigations

Manual Investigations

Healthcare Science Knowledge

Job description

You will be working as part of a scientific and clinical team, including doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and the role you perform will directly contribute to saving and improving patients lives. There are many opportunities for career advancement within NHSBT. With experience and training you may progress to managing a section of the laboratory, right through to lead scientist with responsibility for the entire laboratory service. You may use your knowledge to specialise in an area vital to the operation of a modern reference service such as Quality Control, training and education, or research and development. We will provide you with an extensive induction and training programme and ongoing development to support you in your role and achieving your career ambitions., The Microbiology Services Laboratory (MSL) is a specialist laboratory responsible for the confirmation of microbiological screen reactivity in samples from blood, tissue and stem cell donors. MSL also performs some specialist non-blood donor screening (tissue, stem cell and organ donors), the lot release testing of microbiological assays, and provides expert advice and guidance.

• You will be required to perform and interpret a wide range of specialist scientific and technical procedures and tests relating to the issue of results for blood, tissue or stem cell products.
• You will be required to conduct automated and manual investigations in a microbiology reference laboratory, operating a range of complex and routine equipment, applying scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge expected of a Healthcare Scientist.
• You will be required to provide cover in times of operational difficulty, with reasonable notice.
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.