Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly Cellular Pathology department at Torbay Hospital situated at the heart of the beautiful South Devon Coast. We are seeking to recruit a suitably qualified and experienced Specialist Biomedical Scientist. We will also consider applications from qualified Biomedical Scientists who are about to start or part way through their specialist portfolio. They will start on Annex U until successful completion of their specialist portfolio.

The department handles around 21,000 diagnostic requests per year and performs a range of histological procedures. The department is critical to patient management by way of providing diagnosis for a range of different tissue samples. The department uses the Beaker LIMS system and the Roche Vantage Tracking system.

The successful candidate will need to be dedicated, dynamic, work well as part of a small, friendly team and show sound organisational skills. The primary role will be to provide technical expertise within the department.

The core hours of the department are 08:30 to 17:00 Monday to Friday.

Torbay Hospital is situated within the English Riviera, in an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is adjacent to some of the country's best beaches and close to the Dartmoor National Park.

Main duties of the job

• The successful candidate will work across the full range of services provided by the Histology Department, including dissection/loading, embedding, microtomy, Special stains, and IHC.
• As a Specialist Biomedical Scientist the post holder will be following standard operating procedures, and support the implementation of improved or best practice. All work will be in keeping with the laboratory quality management system. This will include the effective use of laboratory procedural and other records, maintenance of assets/analysers, and supporting with the resolution of corrective and preventative actions.

About us

Why Work With Us

The Department of Cellular pathology has a total workload of 21,000 surgical requests annually. In addition, 100 frozen sections, 75 skin immunofluorescence and 11,000 immunocytochemistry tests are performed. Diagnostic Cytology receives 1,000 requests.

Looking after you is important to us.

We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.

If you are starting out in the NHS, you'll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.

You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.

Salary is not the only financial benefit

You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options
• Car lease schemes.
• The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
• Cycle to work scheme

These are just a few of the benefits available - if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.