Clinical Blood Sciences Multidisciplinary Biomedical Scientist

Job summary

The Role:

This post is based at the Croydon laboratory where you will complete multidisciplinary training in Haematology/Blood transfusion and Biochemistry departments. You will be expected to rotate through the departments as required to support the service. You will also be expected to work at any of the SWLP sites as and when required.

The Croydon University Hospital Laboratory operates a 24hr shift system providing cover to a busy A&E and acute services. The Biochemistry Laboratory is equipped with fully automated Beckman equipment (DxI 9000, AU5812 and DXA) with pre analytic, analytic and post analytic automation. Haematology is equipped with ACL Top 570, Beckman Coulter DxH 900 with AutoMate 1200 for pre/post analytics, as well as Immucor IRIS for automated Blood Transfusion services. The blood transfusion department delivers a wide range of pre-transfusion and antenatal investigations on site for Croydon University Hospital and GPs. Croydon laboratory has 58 technical staff processing an approximate workload of 1.5M requests per year.

The Biomedical Scientist role requires motivated HCPC registered Biomedical Scientists who would like to gain post registration multidisciplinary experience within clinical blood sciences. You will be given the opportunity to complete the IBMS specialist diploma.

Main duties of the job

To be an efficient and flexible member of the SWL Pathology team providing a consistently high quality and professional service to all users of the service.

Able to perform all core scientific and interpretive work, which corresponds to the training and qualifications of a Registered Biomedical Scientist.

You will be required to rotate in biochemistry, haematology and blood transfusion departments of the laboratory.

Contribute to providing a professional clinical laboratory service, working effectively as a team member as part of the overall department.

Provide clinical technical services to patients that may include research and audit samples.

You will be required to participate in 24/7 laboratory service to include out of hours working.

About us

Background

South West London Pathology is an award winning pathology partnership between Four leading Hospital Trusts - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals - designed to provide an integrated, high quality pathology service for hospitals and GPs across South West London, by bringing together the best of each Trust's service and providing them within a single organisation.