Biomedical Scientist (Entry Level)
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides services within the Northumberland and North Tyneside areas serving a population of 500,000 people and an area of 2000 sq. miles. Laboratory services are located at North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) which opened in 2015 as England’s first purpose-built specialist emergency care hospital, with emergency consultants on site 24/7, as well as consultants in a range of specialities working seven days a week.
We are looking for a qualified, enthusiastic and motivated Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Biomedical Scientist.
Candidates should have a flexible approach to working, demonstrate good organisational skills and the ability to work without close supervision.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
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Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job- The post holder will practice as a registered Biomedical Scientist in the Haematology / Blood Transfusion Department, working as part of a team in the provision of a high quality diagnostic service to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust and General Practitioners. They will also participate in the supervision, training and development of Trainee Biomedical Scientists and Medical Laboratory Assistants.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The candidate will be able to gain experience of a wide range of methods and will be encouraged to develop their scientific skills. Continuous Professional Development is actively encouraged. The department is committed to supporting further study and has an ongoing programme of education and training.
Our UKAS accredited departments are well equipped with Beckman-Coulter DxH900 Unicell track systems. Beckman-Coulter AutomatedSample Sorter, Stago STAR-Max2 coagulation instrumentation, Beckman-Coulter DxI 800s and Alegria Immunoassay platform, Alifax ESR analyser, TOSOH G11 Analyser, as well as the Winpath LIMS system, Remisol Advance middleware and iPAW sample sorting and archiving systems.
The Blood Transfusion laboratory is centralised at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital providing services to all acute, general and community sites and is well equipped with multiple Ortho analysers, Ortho middleware, Winpath LIMS
system and MSoft blood tracking system.
Although the post will be based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital we are one team and you will also be required to work in Haematology at North Tyneside General Hospital and Wansbeck General Hospital. You will work in all sections of Haematology and Blood Transfusion and participate in the 24/7 shift rota at NSECH.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria- HPC State Registered
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science or equivalent in Biomedical Science
- Evidence of Continuing professional development
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.