About us:
*The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) is the largest and most successful independent pathology organisation in the UK.*
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, 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 exists for a Full Time, HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist wishing to work within the Haematology and Blood Transfusion departments at Northwick Park and Central Middlesex Hospital’s. The post is for BMS with Haematology and Blood Transfusion experience to cover all shifts, full training and competency will be provided prior to commencing shifts. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic professional in the North West London area with good travel links into several mainline London stations. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in all of the shifts to support the needs of the 24/7 requirements of the service as allocated by the Head of Haematology and Blood Transfusion Laboratories. The ideal candidate will contribute to providing a professional and technical laboratory service working effectively as a team member as part of the overall department and to work independently performing routine analyses with support as required from senior Biomedical Scientists.
The Laboratory is responsible for servicing the Haematology and Blood Transfusion pathology needs of a large GP catchment area, with Maternity, Haematology Oncology and large surgical variety, including St Marks Colorectal surgery. There is also a large company Haemoglobinopathy referral center, involved in Neonatal screening and as such the Blood Film Morphology seen is extremely varied with training second to none. The Blood Transfusion laboratory have Grifol's analysers on both sites and the team works alongside the Trust Transfusion Practitioners, Lead BT Clinicians and the Hospital Transfusion Team to promote Patient Blood Management.
Main duties will include rotation between Haematology and Blood Transfusion across both sites covering the 24/7 service, candidates will be expected to participate in all of the duties, including night shifts. Haematology duties include running the XN9100 track, Sysmex CN6000 analysers, morphology and maintaining TATs for A&E and other urgent areas. Blood Transfusion duties will include automated grouping, antibody’s, cross-matching, NHSBT referrals and providing component support for Major Haemorrhages.
At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- Training and development opportunities – including the funding of Undergraduate and Masters Degrees and IBMS Specialist Portfolios for Biomedical Scientists
- Annual performance related salary review
- No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling
- Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
- Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
- Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
- Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days annual leave
- Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.
PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OTHER MEDIA