Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work as Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist in Blood Transfusion at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals as a permanent band 7

Guys and St Thomas is a large specialist trust dealing with various and complex patients. We are undergoing multiple projects in Blood Sciences and across the trust including Blood Track, and the successful applicant would be able to gain experience in implementing and running these new systems.

You will be expected to work as part of the BT Senior Team managing staff in a shared team between Core Haematology and Blood Transfusion, working across both the Guy’s and St Thomas’ sites and gaining that exposure to the interesting caseloads put through the laboratory.

As a Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist in Blood Sciences, the post holder is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a sub-section of the laboratory. The post holder will be responsible for leading a small team of Biomedical Scientists and Medical Laboratory Assistants to deliver a fit-for-purpose medical laboratory service to achieve the objectives of efficient and effective patient care, and resource management within the hospital.

The post holder will be required to undertake their responsibilities in the Blood Transfusion section of Blood Sciences at St Thomas’, with rotations at the Guy’s site.

You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The ACCE competencies programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding / support for advanced qualifications.

Through our Innovation Accelerator Fund, you can apply for finance to get that new innovative scientific project off the ground, and participate with the wider scientific community through symposiums, conferences and other peer group meetings.

• To ensure that preventative maintenance schedules have been carried out on laboratory instruments prior to them being used for patient investigations.
• To ensure that reagents are prepared, stored and used in a manner suitable for patient investigations.
• To perform manual, semi-automated and fully automated laboratory investigations.
• To measure and monitor the accuracy and imprecision of laboratory investigations using appropriate quality control procedures.
• To undertake technical validation of the results from laboratory investigations to ensure accuracy and precision as specified by laboratory protocols.
• To take corrective action when quality control procedures indicate loss of performance with the laboratory instruments or methods.
• To take appropriate action when there is a situation this may cause service delivery failure.

• To undertake method and laboratory instrument evaluation as directed by the Operations Manager.
• To participate in research and development as directed by the Operations Manager.

• To interpret laboratory results and take appropriate actions.
• To be responsible for the authorisation and release of abnormal laboratory results for the clinical care of patients.
• To order and interpret follow-up laboratory procedures as indicated from the primary set of laboratory results on the patient.
• To add technical comments as appropriate to the laboratory report prior to authorising the release of the results.
• To add clinical comments as appropriate to the laboratory report prior to authorising the release of the results.
• To refer clinically significant results for a second opinion from the Operations Manager and/or Consultant Haematologist.
• To select, test and issue blood and blood products for patient care.
• To participate in clinical audits as directed by the Operations or Quality Managers.
• To inform the requesting physician of any clinically significant result or any technically invalid result that requires further action by the physician.

• To comply with local and national policies for the safe, secure and confidential processing, and storage of patient and other laboratory information.
• To use the Laboratory Information…