Blackheath Hospital jobs

Job Title: Senior Biomedical Scientist

Department: Blood Transfusion

Location: The Blackheath Hospital, 40 - 42 Lee Terrace, London, SE3 9UD

Contract /Hours: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary range: Up to £66,336 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance

About us:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls into the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)

About the role:

The TDL laboratory is based with the Circle Blackheath Hospital, 5 minutes walk from the Blackheath overland station.

The Laboratory provides the hospital with 24/7 onsite Biochemistry, Haematology, Coagulation, and Blood Transfusion services. Utilising the Hub and Spoke model, this laboratory also provides these services to 4 other Circle Hospitals in SE London and Surrey, using TDL Courier services, and the Haemonetics Blood track system and remote Haemobanks.

The opportunity has arisen for the appointment of Senior Biomedical Scientist (Blood Transfusion).

The successful candidate should have extensive and demonstrated experience in managing an acute Blood transfusion service in a large, complex hospital environment. They will be responsible for maintaining the local service, ensuring compliance with MHRA, UKAS, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations (BSQR) and internal quality management systems, and ensuring safe and compliant service to the clients.

Duties include:

The successful individual should be flexible, highly motivated and effective team player; methodical, have ability to understand and meet targets and deadlines and strong relationship building, negotiating and influencing skills.

Where necessary, bench working patterns would be required to ensure business continuity, and for in-touch review of the service/departments.

Participation in the out of hours on call rota may be required for which there is additional payments.

Qualification Requirement:

At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

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