Job Title:Senior Biomedical Scientist - Biochemistry and Serology

Location:Regent House, Regent Place, Windsor Street, Salford,  M14 5RY

 

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.

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time experienced HCPC registered Senior Biomedical Scientist to work in our Biochemistry and Serology Department at The Doctors Laboratory, Salford.

 

Referred to internally as The Manchester Laboratory, this is state of the art, superbly equipped lab and handles the workload of a number of Private hospitals, clinics, GP practices in the Northern Region. Working as part of a team, this is an excellent opportunity to further develop your skills, knowledge and experience in a highly automated Clinical Biochemistry Department.

 

You will, together with laboratory management, be responsible for the performance of the service delivered by the Biochemistry/Serology Department for TDL Manchester.  You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills in order to grow in the role. You will be working with the Blood Sciences team to ensure a co-ordinated and effective service is provided by best use of staff and resources to continue to provide a service to UKAS ISO 15189 standards.  You will on occasion be required to work at other network sites for meetings or training to maintain quality, training and service requirements.

 

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated candidate with appropriate qualifications including an MSc; and relevant experience to join the senior team of the department. You will be an HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist and have a broad post registration experience within a Biochemistry/Serology laboratory.  You will need significant experience at specialist Biomedicl Scientist level; desirable experience  includes health and safety, audits, appraisal and staff development and UKAS 15189 standards and quality.

 

The laboratory is UKAS accredited to ISO 15189 and the department is currently well equipped with a number of Roche COBAS, Mast Pledia and Abbott Alinity analysers.

 

As part of the role, there is also a requirement to participate in the out of hours rota for the Blood Sciences department at TDL Manchester.  As a guideline this would involve working a Late Shift, one week in 4, with a finishing time of 9.00pm or 10.00pm and working one Saturday in 4, from 11.30 am to 8.00pm