Biomedical Scientist Histology

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 29 January 2026

Applications are invited from proactive, motivated, enthusiastic HCPC registered biomedical scientists to join the Cellular Pathology Department. The department is UKAS accredited ISO 15189:2021 and is an IBMS approved training laboratory.

The post holder will work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with occasional weekend work. They will be part of a team of Consultant Pathologists, Biomedical Scientists, Medical Laboratory Assistants, and support staff to provide a cellular pathology service for Worcestershire.

For further information, please contact Susan Lovelock, Deputy Laboratory Manager, or

• To follow agreed protocols and policies seeking advice where appropriate from more senior staff
• To work in an efficient and timely manner and to be adaptable to change
• To work in a safe manner in accordance with departmental and Trust Health and Safety policies
• To contribute to care, maintenance and security of the laboratory premises and equipment
• To demonstrate a positive attitude to the work of the laboratory, colleagues and service users
• To respond to requests for information in a polite, helpful and concise manner
• To maintain confidentiality and conform with the Data Protection Act
• To work to quality standards for all aspects of the service as defined by the Pathology Directorate Quality Management System (QMS
• To be able to work alone in conjunction with SOPs with offsite technical supervision.

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

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.

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 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 to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

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.

• To participate in the routine work of all sections of the department to provide our users with accurate and timely results.
• To perform both routine and specialised tasks covering a variety of analytical equipment and manual techniques.
• To ensure that all tasks are performed in accordance with current Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and regulations to ensure a high quality service at all times.
• To ensure that equipment is properly maintained on a day to day basis and operated in accordance with laboratory and manufacturers SOPs.
• To be fully conversant with all forms of automated equipment within the Department, including being able to troubleshoot to ensure minimum downtime as consequence of minor breakdowns/ malfunctions
• To document specimens, including the entry of computerised records.
• To handle, process and dispose of histological and cytological material including sensitive disposal of products of conception.
• To provide assistance to Advanced Practitioners with regard to specimen dissection and sampling of diagnostic material.
• To macroscopically describe and transfer into cassettes, small biopsies, curettings, needle biopsies etc (Category A Specimens).
• To participate in the preparation of cell blocks from cytological specimens to aid histological investigation if necessary.
• To embed and orientate tissue samples selected for diagnostic evaluation, requiring significant knowledge and experience of histological and anatomical structure.
• To produce microscopical preparations, requiring extensive hand and eye coordination to produce high quality diagnostic sections using complex, skilled microtomy and handling techniques, for both paraffin wax and urgent diagnostic frozen sections.
• To prepare complex stains, working solutions and reagents in order to perform routine and specialised histological, histochemical and immunocytochemical investigations.
• To undertake routine and specialised histological, histochemical, and Immunoperoxidase and…