Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Blood Sciences department at Synnovis Analytics, one of the largest consolidated Blood Sciences Laboratories, based in a new purpose-built Hub at Blackfriars, London.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and proactive HCPC-registered Senior Biomedical Scientist to join our dynamic team. This role offers the chance to contribute to a busy, fully automated laboratory and play a key part in delivering high-quality diagnostic services.
As a Senior Biomedical Scientist, you will primarily support the serum workflow, covering Biochemistry, Immunology, Immunochemistry, and Serology. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team and report to the Blood Sciences Operational Management team. Responsibilities include overseeing daily operations, ensuring service delivery meets corporate objectives, and supporting continuous improvement.
We're looking for a quick learner with a proactive approach to problem-solving, a strong team player who thrives in collaboration, and someone passionate about career development in a diverse setting.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with state-of-the-art automated track systems, gain experience across multiple disciplines, and be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team while developing your career in a modern, high-throughput lab.
Main duties of the job
This role is primarily based on Floor 2 of the Hub, within the automated multi-disciplinary Blood Sciences Department.
As an HCPC-registered Senior Biomedical Scientist, your main duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Being responsible for a specialist area, providing technical scientific services and communicating complex information to support clinical diagnosis.
- Maintaining HCPC standards of conduct required to practise as a registered Biomedical Scientist.
- Contributing to the development of specialist investigations, identifying improved ways of working and service efficiencies.
- Providing technical advice to clinical colleagues within your competency.
- Supporting strategic development and service improvement, including implementing new techniques, equipment, and tests, with associated verification and validation.
- Ensuring incidents and events are correctly reported by junior staff in Q-Pulse and other systems, and supporting their learning of quality procedures.
- Monitoring and reporting on EQA and IQC procedures, and resolving identified issues.
- Managing day-to-day staffing with the Operations Manager, ensuring resourcing needs are met, workflow is maintained, and training supports turnaround times.
- Supervising staff and participating in early, late, and weekend shifts.Demonstrating ongoing competency against training plans.
- Communicating complex subjects with professionalism, patience, and empathy, especially with those unfamiliar with the topic.
About us
Your development and learning
Our organisation brings together the very best in clinical, scientific and operational expertise, and displays in action the core values at the heart of our brand: science for life, collaboration for the benefit of everyone, and innovation and quality.
You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The Synnovis Way Development programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding / support for advanced qualifications.
Through our Innovation Accelerator Fund, you can apply for finance to get that new innovative scientific project off the ground, and participate with the wider scientific community through symposiums, conferences and other peer group meetings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners.
A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London.
From 1 April 2024 our people and services have moved to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests.
You will hold a variety of accountabilities in the laboratory environment. These include, but are not limited to:
- In conjunction with the Quality team, monitor, report and action errors, hazards, and incidents logged in the CAPA module of Q-Pulse. This may include taking part in investigations of incidents and providing expert insight into making improvements based on outcomes.
- Participate in appropriate clinical audits as required and directed.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory and quality requirements of regulatory directives, accreditation bodies, and local management including:
- Care Quality Commission
- UKAS
- Synnovis policies and SOPs
- Any other body in area of responsibility.
- Encourage junior employees in their scientific expertise, knowledge and professional development, including the safe use of highly complex and sensitive equipment.
- Develop, prepare, write, and review relevant documents, including SOPs, COSHH and risk assessments in line with the ISO 15189 standard.
- Demonstrate ongoing laboratory-based competency against training plans.
For further details please see the attached JD.
Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.
The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.
The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners.
A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London.
From 1 April 2024 our people and services have moved to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests.
You will hold a variety of accountabilities in the laboratory environment. These include, but are not limited to:
- In conjunction with the Quality team, monitor, report and action errors, hazards, and incidents logged in the CAPA module of Q-Pulse. This may include taking part in investigations of incidents and providing expert insight into making improvements based on outcomes.
- Participate in appropriate clinical audits as required and directed.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory and quality requirements of regulatory directives, accreditation bodies, and local management including:
- Care Quality Commission
- UKAS
- Synnovis policies and SOPs
- Any other body in area of responsibility.
- Encourage junior employees in their scientific expertise, knowledge and professional development, including the safe use of highly complex and sensitive equipment.
- Develop, prepare, write, and review relevant documents, including SOPs, COSHH and risk assessments in line with the ISO 15189 standard.
- Demonstrate ongoing laboratory-based competency against training plans.
For further details please see the attached JD.
Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.
The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.
The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) IBMS accredited degree or equivalent
- HCPC State registration as a Biomedical Scientist
- Specialist portfolio in relevant discipline or equivalent experience (if HCPC Registration via IBMS Portfolio route) or FIBMS, MSc, FIBMS or equivalent experience in a similar role
- Evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable
- Quality or Management qualification
- Willing to work towards higher levels of professional practice
- IBMS membership
Experience
Essential
- Leadership qualities with experience of coaching, coordinating and managing a team
- Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota and shift management
- Experience of supervising junior employees
- Experience in and ability to supervise analysis, interpretation and technical validation of routine, complex and specialist results
- Experience in the education of physiology, pathology, and scientific principles relevant to specialism
- Lead in area of special interest and expertise in one or more areas of the laboratory, for example Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT
Desirable
- Cultivating junior colleagues with skills in areas of interest or expertise such as Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT
- Cultivating Specialist BMS with skills in research, clinical or analytical areas
- Acting as owner for escalation and communication to internal and external service users in the event of quality/ analyser/assay failures
- Line management experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Competent in the interpretation and technical validation of results
- Manage the resolution of troubleshooting activity for highly technical and precision equipment and assays
- Ability to troubleshoot and train those who use the Laboratory Information Management Systems
- Ability to manage effectively in a changing dynamic environment with multiple conflicting priorities
- Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota management
- Knowledge of the correct policies and procedures to implement in relation to quality systems, with reference to ISO/UKAS
Desirable
- Good awareness of current issues within pathology locally and nationally
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) IBMS accredited degree or equivalent
- HCPC State registration as a Biomedical Scientist
- Specialist portfolio in relevant discipline or equivalent experience (if HCPC Registration via IBMS Portfolio route) or FIBMS, MSc, FIBMS or equivalent experience in a similar role
- Evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable
- Quality or Management qualification
- Willing to work towards higher levels of professional practice
- IBMS membership
Experience
Essential
- Leadership qualities with experience of coaching, coordinating and managing a team
- Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota and shift management
- Experience of supervising junior employees
- Experience in and ability to supervise analysis, interpretation and technical validation of routine, complex and specialist results
- Experience in the education of physiology, pathology, and scientific principles relevant to specialism
- Lead in area of special interest and expertise in one or more areas of the laboratory, for example Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT
Desirable
- Cultivating junior colleagues with skills in areas of interest or expertise such as Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT
- Cultivating Specialist BMS with skills in research, clinical or analytical areas
- Acting as owner for escalation and communication to internal and external service users in the event of quality/ analyser/assay failures
- Line management experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Competent in the interpretation and technical validation of results
- Manage the resolution of troubleshooting activity for highly technical and precision equipment and assays
- Ability to troubleshoot and train those who use the Laboratory Information Management Systems
- Ability to manage effectively in a changing dynamic environment with multiple conflicting priorities
- Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota management
- Knowledge of the correct policies and procedures to implement in relation to quality systems, with reference to ISO/UKAS
Desirable
- Good awareness of current issues within pathology locally and nationally
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
