Senior Clinical Scientist

Senior Clinical Scientist

The closing date is 27 January 2026.

The post holder will be required to deliver a range of complex scientific work requiring skilled performance with a degree of individual responsibility. This will involve interpreting results and providing clinical advice to hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers. This includes recommendations on appropriateness of tests to be performed, production of clinical guidelines and the implementation of follow up tests and advice on how treatment may affect biochemical tests.

They will assist the Consultant Chemical Pathologist and Consultant Clinical Scientists in the provision of a comprehensive Clinical Biochemistry service.

A key aspect will be leading on manual testing at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and rotating through the manual sections at WRH hospital including protein electrophoresis.

This role is backfill for maternity cover and will provide additional support to the duty biochemistry team. As a core role this will include interpreting results and advising hospital doctors, general practitioners, nurses, midwives and other health care professionals on all aspects of the laboratory service. This also includes recommendations on appropriateness of tests to be performed, production of clinical guidelines and the implementation of follow up tests and advice on how treatment may affect biochemical tests.

As an addition it will also involve leading on manual testing at the Alexandra Hospital as well as helping to support protein electrophoresis and POCT.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester with laboratories at the Worcester and Redditch sites.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our values:

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex‑positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs – any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see the link in the Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.