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Working Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

Please can we draw your attention to a permanent Senior Biomedical Scientist in Immunology (Band 7) post at the Countess of Chester NHS Trust (COCH). This is an ideal opportunity for a candidate with proven Immunology experience to develop their career. There may be opportunity to develop skills within the wider Blood Sciences department (Clinical Biochemistry and Haematology).

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join our friendly and enthusiastic team. The post will assist in the provision of a comprehensive clinical and diagnostic Immunology service at COCH.

The department is equipped with Phadia, Sebia and Sprinter automation. The analysers are interfaced via Beckman Coulter middle wear (Remisol) and the hospital system (LIMS) is Cerner.

The post offers excellent training and career development opportunities.

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• To support the Laboratory Managers to provide a safe and efficient service from the Immunology laboratory.
• To assist in the management of the staff.
• To provide expert knowledge and advice on the technical aspects of Immunology.
• To work closely with the Laboratory Managers and the Pathology Sciences Manager to ensure agreed strategy and departmental policies are implemented and complied with.
• To provide a supervisory role for laboratory service.

The Immunology and Blood Sciences team provide essential services both within the Trust and the wider health care community. The Immunology department offers a service that covers all of the testing for both the Countess of Chester Hospital and Wirral University Teaching Hospital. You will work as part of a team of Advanced Specialist Biomedical Scientists (Band 7) Blood Sciences Department. Each Advance Specialist will take the lead for a specific aspect of the departments senior functions.

There will be discipline specific duties and rotation throughtout the department where required. You will supervise the day to day processing of samples within your assigned laboratory area. You will ensure that tests are processed to the required quality and within agreed turnaround times. Report any factors affecting performance to the laboratory managers. You will take an active role with ensuring compliance with the department's quality management system to ensure UKAS accreditation. You will assist the Departmental Managers to ensure the departmental objectives are achieved.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.