About us:
Health Services Laboratories (HSL) is a progressive partnership between The Doctors Laboratory, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Free London) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. We combine The Doctors Laboratory’s long standing, specialist pathology expertise with the Royal Free London and UCLH’s internationally recognised heritage of continual research, development and academic excellence. 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:
A vacancy has arisen for a full time, HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist in our Molecular Virology Department based in Central London.
Duties for this position will include helping with the daily running of the laboratory section to which you have been assigned within the Department of Virology. Additionally, you will assist in the performance of the routine diagnostic analytical work of the department as directed in order to ensure timely and accurate reporting of results. You will maintain the highest professional and technical standards in the department and lead, motivate, supervise and train staff of lower grades.
The job holder will be expected to process and test patient specimens in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures by using manual, semi and fully automated laboratory methods.
If you require further information about this position, please contact Melanie Turner by email:
[email protected]
At HSL 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 years of service
- Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days annual leave
- Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week. With a variety of working patterns available, options to review working flexibly will always be considered.
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.
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