Specialist Biomedical Scientist Band 6 - Clinical Biochemistry

Specialist Biomedical Scientist Band 6 - Clinical Biochemistry

The closing date is 12 March 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a state registered Healthcare Scientist who has completed or is actively undertaking their IBMS specialist portfolio. The successful applicant will take an active role in the leadership support of the Clinical Biochemistry Department within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

You will be supporting fellow state registered Healthcare Scientists in the provision of an effective, 24/7 high quality service and will actively support the team in processing approximately 33,000 assays (over 4000 samples) per day and enable the department to play a key role in supporting allied healthcare professionals who are reliant on our service. The role will require communication of confidential urgent/abnormal results, ensuring rapid turnaround times which meet key Trust objectives, maintaining and troubleshooting equipment and initial investigations into poor analyser performance.

To support the Band 7 team leaders and departmental management team in the active management and development of colleagues within the chemical pathology department. To take an active role in developing the pathology department’s Quality Management System.

Responsibility for ensuring all tests are performed according to established laboratory standard operating procedures and within agreed turnaround times.

Ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standards.

Responsibility for ensuring safe use and maintenance of expensive, complex equipment, maintaining appropriate records.

To supervise Band 5 & Trainee Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners and Medical Laboratory Assistants.

Full participation in a 24 hour shift pattern is expected. This includes working at both sites, sometimes as a lone worker.

We are looking for an individual who has:

• The ability to train & develop
• Excellent communication skills
• Show good existing leadership skills with a willingness to develop further by attending appropriate Trust run courses aimed at enhancing leadership qualities within the GHFT organisation
• Organised with attention to detail
• Demonstrate a high level of concentration
• Understands own limitations and is not afraid to ask for help.
• Flexible and able to demonstrate initiative.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Friendly, enthusiastic team player with good demonstrable interpersonal skills.

The Chemical Pathology Department provides a UKAS accredited analytical and clinical interpretive service to support over 600,000 individuals within the Gloucestershire health community. We process over 1,200,000 patient requests (12 million tests) per annum within a 24/7, 365 day service.

We are a hard working team focused on improving patient outcomes and delivering high quality and fast turnaround times for all patient test requests.

1) Technical Role

Responsibility for ensuring all tests are performed according to established laboratory standard operating procedures and within agreed turnaround times.

To ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standards.

Responsibility for ensuring safe use of expensive and complex equipment by undertaking regular in house maintenance and maintaining appropriate records.

To inform Team Leaders and initiate any troubleshooting and problem solving in relation to errors with equipment, methodologies and quality control.

To comply with quality control procedures and utilise the data to ensure accuracy of patient results.

Ensure regular Quality Control reviews are undertaken within the section.

Responsible for initiating repeat analysis where the validity and accuracy of the results are in doubt.

To assist in the maintenance of adequate stock levels of reagents and consumables.

To assess and check the validity and accuracy of any results produced by MLAs, Trainees & Associate Practitioners and to authorise their work.

2) Supervisory Role

To supervise Healthcare Science Practitioners, Trainee Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners and Medical Laboratory…