Biomedical Scientist; Biochemistry

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust now has an opportunity for a Biomedical Scientist within our biochemistry department to provide maternity cover for a fixed term of 9 months. Our diagnostic services are on two sites, with our main automated laboratory and specialist assays based at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke and our essential service laboratory at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester.

In addition we support 2 community hospitals and 3 independent hospitals, providing care to over 500,000 patients. If you have the qualifications and experience required for this role we would love to hear from you.

• Work flexibly to provide a service that is in the best interests of the department.
• Be competent to work unsupervised in the laboratory and rotate through sections within the department to develop a multi‑skilled and flexible approach.
• Assess and interpret test results.
• Be responsible for the operational maintenance of laboratory equipment and environment.
• Participate in all required internal and external quality assurance schemes.
• Take appropriate action should the quality assurance systems be outside acceptable limits.
• Assist the senior BMS staff with the development of the Blood Sciences services.
• Contribute to the evaluation of working practices, laboratory protocols and SOPs.
• Support the effective processing of the department workload.
• Reception, preparation, and processing of specimens.
• Process the workload to the required high standard while ensuring adherence to Trust and departmental policies, protocols and procedures, applying professional judgement and knowledge within your boundaries.

The Hampshire Hospital Laboratories were accredited to ISO
15189:2012 standards in 2014 and have maintained that accreditation to date. The department is accredited as a training laboratory by the IBMS for both registration and specialist portfolios. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. The Trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally, and are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei – a rare form of abdominal cancer – and are leaders in tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where everyone belongs and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net‑zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or cont
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Name: Krishna Putta
Job title: Operational manager
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