Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Synnovis Analytics; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare services provider in Camden Town invites applications for the role of Specialist Biomedical Scientist. This position requires HCPC registration and expertise in Haematology and Coagulation along with strong Morphology skills. You will be tasked with performing routine investigations, ensuring compliance with standards, and maintaining data quality using advanced laboratory systems. The role is based in an innovative and automated laboratory setting.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Specialist Biomedical Scientist.
• Must possess an IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Haematology and Coagulation.
• Strong skills in Morphology; experience with Digital Morphology preferred.
• Experience in busy automated blood sciences laboratories required.

Responsibilities

• Perform and interpret routine investigations across General Haematology, Coagulation, and Morphology.
• Maintain HCPC standards and process specimens.
• Support MLAs and APs.
• Ensure compliance with UKAS and Synnovis policies.
• Participate in audits and incident reporting.
• Use Q-Pulse and Epic Beaker LIMS to maintain high-quality data.

Skills

Strong Morphology skills

Experience in busy automated blood sciences laboratories

Q-Pulse system

Epic Beaker LIMS

Education

HCPC registered Specialist Biomedical Scientist

IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Haematology and Coagulation or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting new opportunity to join our Blood Sciences department in Synnovis. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive individual to join our department as an HCPC registered Specialist Biomedical Scientist, with experience in working in busy automated blood sciences laboratories.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Synnovis as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist within the 24/7 Blood Sciences service. Based at the Blackfriars Hub, you'll work across General Haematology, Coagulation, and Morphology, supporting efficient patient care and resource management. You must be HCPC registered with the IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Haematology and Coagulation or equivalent experience, with strong Morphology skills and ideally experience in Digital Morphology.

The lab is fully automated with advanced systems including Sysmex XN‑9100, CN6000, SP50, and Scopio Labs, integrated with Epic Beaker LIMS. You'll perform and interpret routine investigations, maintain HCPC standards, process specimens, and support MLAs and APs. The role also involves ensuring compliance with UKAS and Synnovis policies, participating in audits and incident reporting, and using systems like Q‑Pulse and LIMS to maintain high‑quality data.

The Synnovis Hub Blood Sciences department is one of the largest consolidated Blood Sciences Laboratories in a new purpose‑built Hub laboratory based at Blackfriars in London.

The department is an innovative and progressive department that delivers analytical services to prominent London teaching hospitals, Kings College Hospitals and Guy’s and St Thomas Trusts as well as supporting Princess Royal in Orpington and the specialist Cardiovascular and Transplant trusts sites at Royal Brompton and Harefield.

Synnovis Hub Blood Sciences laboratories routinely performs testing of outpatients from the six trust sites as well as over 190 primary care GPs within the Southeast London region. It offers repertoire of routine tests in both Haematology and Coagulation. Including Digital Morphology for reporting routine blood film morphology.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland and the NHS, including Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Together, they deliver and transform pathology services across Southeast London.

The partnership serves approximately 1.7 million residents of Southeast London, as well as many thousands of patients from outside the region who access local healthcare services. It provides diagnostics, testing, and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP practices, and other healthcare providers.

Our organisation brings together the very best in clinical, scientific and operational expertise, and displays in action the core values at the heart of our brand: science for life, collaboration for the benefit of everyone, and innovation and quality.

Responsibilities

• Perform and interpret routine investigations across General Haematology, Coagulation, and Morphology.
• Maintain HCPC standards and process specimens.
• Support MLAs and APs.
• Ensure compliance with UKAS and Synnovis policies.
• Participate in audits and incident reporting.
• Use Q‑Pulse and Epic Beaker LIMS to maintain high‑quality data.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Specialist Biomedical Scientist.
• IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Haematology and Coagulation or equivalent experience.
• Strong Morphology skills, with ideal experience in Digital Morphology.
• Experience working in busy automated blood sciences laboratories.