NHS Biomedical Scientist Plymouth, England
Job description
Are you an experienced and committed Band 6 Biomedical Scientist looking for something new?
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting career opportunity based in Plymouth for a Band 6 Biomedical Scientist (BMS).
The pay rate for this locum BMS job is £26.50 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an ongoing contract.
Benefits of working with Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Duties:
- Undertake higher scientific and some managerial duties in Molecular services across Pathology, as required in order to facilitate the smooth running of the service
- Provide a clinical technical service by performing routine and specialist analytical testing on a range of biological samples
- Maintain and run specialist equipment up to a value of £1 million
- Supervise, mentor and support band 5 Biomedical Scientists, Trainee Biomedical Scientists and support staff within your section
- Process biological samples including blood, urine, faeces cerebral spinal fluid and other tissues, taking personal responsibility for the quality and authorisation of the results, which are used in the diagnosis, treatment and management of disease
- Provide complex information relating to test results, which may be sensitive in nature
To be considered for this role, candidates must:
- Be HCPC registered and must have a relevant qualification in biomedical science or alternative qualification
- Have post qualifying experience within biomedical science
- Demonstrate the high level of skill to perform complex manual, semi-automated and automated analytical techniques as applicable, meeting turnaround times with prompt reporting and authorisation of results used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease
- Understand the pathology of disease in relationship to the results produced whilst being aware of their significance in the reporting and authorisation of patients’ results with reference to the normal ranges
- Be aware of the clinical significance of results produced and using this knowledge to perform appropriate supplementary tests/investigations relevant to providing a complete report to requesting clinicians
Contact:
This Biomedical Scientist job is advertised by Ben Cox; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from any experienced Biomedical Scientists specialising in Microbiology, Virology, Blood Science, Pathology, Histology, Biochemistry, Haematology, PCR, Bacteriology, Histopathology, Coagulation and Multi-Disciplinary.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Biomedical Scientist role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
