Band 4 Blood Sciences Associate Practitioner
The closing date is 18 January 2026
Job summary
We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join the Biochemistry Department at King George and Queen's Hospitals as an Associate Practitioner (Band 4). The role requires excellent communication, time-management skills, and a flexible, systematic approach to work.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience across Biochemistry, Urgent Bench, POCT, and Prenatal Screening, working within a dynamic Blood Sciences team delivering diagnostic services across both sites. The post holder will be required to work at King George Hospital (Goodmayes) and Queen's Hospital (Romford) in line with service needs.
The department supports Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and is equipped with modern Roche, Sebia, Phadia, and Binding Site analysers. Services include specialist testing such as macroprolactin, sweat tests, xanthochromia, electrophoresis, RAST, faecal immunoassay, and prenatal screening for chromosomal disorders.
The role involves working within a 24/7 service. This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week), with flexible working between 08:00-20:00, including weekends and bank holidays, with plans to move towards a shift system.
Both hospital sites offer a supportive working environment and are easily accessible by public transport.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is required to rotate through Biochemistry, Haematology, Hot Lab, POCT and Blood Sciences Reception, where appropriate.The post holder must participate in the either the AfC hybrid (day & night) or permanent night shift patterns. Where staff work the latter, hours of work will fluctuate per week as per roster pattern and will attract enhancements.
Working in teams to perform complex analytical investigations on patient samples in order to provide quality and timely diagnostic and monitoring essential for patient care.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.
Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.
Details
Date posted
08 January 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£32,199 to £34,876 a year per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-7545-CCS
Job locations
Across Sites
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Across Sites
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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