Healthcare Scientist (Biomedical Scientist (BMS)) Norwich, England
Job description
Fixed term contract/secondment opportunity for 12 months
EPA Microbiology is the only Microbiology laboratory in the county! We provide clinical diagnostic services to help doctors understand what is making their patients sick and how best to treat them. This busy, exciting and essential service is run by an efficient and close-knit team, the laboratory is very focused on staff wellbeing and teamwork. We would love to get someone recruited who will integrate well into this dynamic department, with previous lab experience to help you hit the ground running and also contribute to improving the service. You must have the IBMS Specialist Portfolio to be eligible for this post. Applicants without this will not be considered at this stage.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
As post holder you will be:
- Performing routine laboratory procedures independently in all areas of the Microbiology Laboratory according to laboratory policies and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Working across all areas of the laboratory to prepare and process clinical material for testing, run automated analysers, participate in quality improvement, and train other staff.
- Complete ongoing service training including CPD.
- Work with other team members to plan workload and achieve collective goals.
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
- Handle dangerous pathogens on a daily basis including containment level 3 organisms.
- Communicate complex clinical technical service related test information to managers, consultants, nurses and other health care colleagues.
- Answer telephone inquiries from Pathology users about test results and provide information about methodologies and service requirements.
- Explain results when results do not agree with clinical presentation and investigate and problem solve situations as required.
- Manage own work and day to day routine work in specialised services. Responsible for processing both urgent and routine work to maintain routine turnaround times in line with Trust and Departmental policies.
- Maintain complex specialist equipment on a daily basis and sign off as fit for use.
- Responsible for the efficient use of expensive tests and high value equipment.
- Run test procedures on all methodologies on a daily basis to include calibration and quality control testing of sign off methods as fit for use.
- Troubleshoot equipment and function after formal in-house training.
- Implement policies in specialised areas and propose changes that will improve and develop the service for users inside and outside the Trust.
- Maintain specialised databases in laboratory computer systems and patient storage databases on a daily basis.
- Input patient data and results to include other colleagues work.
