Biomedical Scientist, Multiskilled, Bank Hours Cleveland Clinic, London Up to £25 ph DOE
Job Title:Biomedical Scientist (Multiskilled - Bank Hours)
Location: Cleveland Clinic, SW1X 7HY
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
About the role:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist (Bank) to join the Pathology Team at The Cleveland Clinic Laboratory.
This is a strategically located laboratory within the Cleveland Clinic Hospital neat Victoria.
The role is for the coverage of weekend shifts, and/or annual leave. A regular rotation onto the out of hours shifts would be preferred to ensure continuing training and competency compliance.
The laboratory has multi-discipline repertoire which would appeal to specialist staff who have experience in several disciplines, particularly in Blood Transfusion.
The working hours are between weekend shifts of Friday evenings through to Monday morning.
The successful candidate will participate in the routine processing of all pathology (Hematology, Biochemistry, Transfusion) specimens and issue of blood components with the other BMS and MLA staff to ensure a smooth workflow, and ensure that for each sample the appropriate requested investigations are performed in a timely manner and to ensure that specialised and urgent specimens are appropriately dealt with.
The role offers opportunity to develop additional quality control/assurance skills and responsibilities, health and safety practices, and various other internal and external training avenues.
Being part of the TDL regional labs group, staff are supported by and contribute to the other TDL regional labs functions in sharing input into troubleshooting, training, peer auditing, presenting training sessions and supporting company projects.
