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Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wednesfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Biomedical Scientist-Training Lead to join the Pathology laboratory team. You will assist with managing day-to-day operations in a designated laboratory area, providing specialist clinical technical services and supporting training and development of technical staff.

You will maintain CPD, competence documentation, training matrices and real-time training updates, while ensuring adherence to Health & Safety policies and SOPs.

Responsibilities

• Assist with managing day-to-day operations of a specific area of a laboratory service.
• Provide specialist clinical technical services to patients, including potential research and audit samples.
• Undertake day-to-day management of a section within the laboratory under the direction of the line manager.
• Provide training and supervision to staff within the section.
• Maintain documentation for competence assessment and training matrices (e.g., training matrix, ProfilerLive).
• Work in compliance with local Health & Safety rules, COSHH, risk assessments and SOPs; report non-compliances to the Service Manager or Technical Lead.

Job description

Senior Biomedical Scientist-Training Lead | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

To be an efficient, flexible member of the laboratory and wider Pathology service providing a consistently high quality and professional service.

Assist with managing the day-to-day operations of a specific area of a laboratory service, at the hub or spoke laboratory, as an integral element of Pathology. To be responsible for providing specialist knowledge, alongside technical expertise to aid in the training and development of technical staff.

To maintain competence to practice and to improve professional expertise through engagement in Continual Professional Development (CPD)

To work within the written Policies and Procedures of the Department especially in relation to Health & Safety and Quality.

To provide and co-ordinate specialist clinical technical services to patients that may include research and audit samples

To undertake day-to-day management of a section within the laboratory under the direction of the line manager.

Contributes to providing a professional clinical laboratory service, working effectively as a team member as part of the overall department.

To provide the necessary training and supervision to staff within the section.

To maintain, monitor and develop documentation for competence assessment in all areas. Maintain training matrix and ProfilerLIve systems for real time training and competence updates.

Work in compliance with local health and safety rules to ensure a safe working environment. Adhere to department, directorate and Board Health and Safety policies (including COSHH, Risk assessments and Standard Operating Procedures) and to report any non-compliances to the Service Manager or Technical Lead.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

To be proficient an all designated areas of diagnostic work within the department and to provide a comprehensive and appropriate laboratory service to patients and staff.

To undertake a wide range of diagnostic tests and screening procedures through to initial interpretation.

To ensure that test procedures are carried out according to SOP's, assess that other junior staff are competent and participate in their regular review and update.

To maintain and develop documentation relating to training eg SOPs, training plans, competence assessment documents and tasks for generic and specialist portfolios. To organise and encourage staff to take a keen interest in the training of junior members of staff.

To document completion of competence assessments in a training matrix for each member of staff and review regularly to keep this up to date as possible. Oversee Mandatory training in order to achieve departmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

£32,073 - £39,043 Annex 21 (training grade for trainee Biomedical Scientist)