Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Overview

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 February 2026

Please note
: a band 5 applicant would be considered if no suitable applicants fill the band 6 criteria. To act in a scientific role and to carry out all routine investigations within the department, following such training as may be necessary, ensuring the quality of the service.

To assist in the provision of the cellular pathology and mortuary service for the trusts hospitals and CCGs by providing specialist knowledge and technical skills to process, analyse, understand and interpret results of diagnostic tests. Rotate on a regular basis through the different sections of the department and take part in the extended working rota.

To ensure health and safety is maintained, train junior members of staff, and be involved with quality and service development through laboratory and clinical audit. Continuous professional development will be essential for this post and further study will be encouraged.

Specialist techniques; including microtomy, embedding, frozen sections, immunohistochemistry, andrology, non-gynae cytology, block-checking, digital slide QC, troubleshooting, liaising with seniors and support staff, involvement with quality management systems, audits.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients  homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children s and young people s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

The postholder:

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• Providing confidential, specialist advice over the telephone to users of the service.
• To act as primary point of contact for the laboratory when working alone outside normal working hours.
• Liaising with other members of staff within the department on a routine basis to ensure safe and efficient daily operation.
• To be able to train and supervise other members of staff.
• To be a point of reference for junior staff and participate in the duty band 6 rota.
• The post requires an ability to implement new policies and changes to practice in their own area.
• Provide advice and guidance to other staff members working in that area.
• Helps formulate SOPs.
• To coordinate work and staff within their area.
• To take receipt of clinical samples from wards, clinics, theatres and GPs checking the integrity of the sample.
• To unpack the samples with reference to health and safety procedures and the minimum data set requirements for labelling the sample and request form.
• To label the sample with a laboratory number and input patient and sample information into the laboratory computer system.
• To input request form details and simple diagnostic test results.
• To retrieve information from the IT system if required to do so.
• To undertake with reference to departmental Standard Operating Procedures, the initial processing of all clinical samples, including: urine, sputum, fluids and fine needle aspirates. This requires a thorough knowledge and understanding of aseptic laboratory…