In conjunction with the other Senior Biomedical Scientists Leadership/Management To establish effective and collaborative working relationships with key staff. Lead by example. Always maintain a professional approach to work behaving courteously and with professional and emotional maturity. To be accountable for your own professional actions and maintain high personal standards of work. Organise your daily duties to ensure provision of a timely, quality service. Effective time management and daily triage and prioritisation of departmental workload. Generation of work rotas. Clinical/Scientific/Technical Maintain a high level of specialist Cellular Pathology knowledge. To include experience of trouble- shooting and microscopic interpretation skills. To undertake analytical, technical, and administrative troubleshooting to ensure reliable service delivery. To use experience, knowledge, and judgement to make decisions on laboratory results. Interpret complex multifactorial results. Maintain essential embedding and microtomy skills. Perform quality control of the H&E stain and troubleshoot when required. Perform quality control of the special stains and troubleshoot when required. Perform the cryo-microtomy of rapid frozen sections when required. Lead and support the delivery of the BMS dissection service for Category A-D specimens in accordance with laboratory policies and procedures. Training & Education Provide leadership for training and education activity within the laboratory. Develop and maintain training programs for all laboratory staff. Assist the Operational Manager to ensure that the IBMS training requirements for Biomedical Support Staff, Pre-Registration and Post Registration are met. Provide training and mentorship to Support Trainee, Apprentice and Biomedical staff. Maintain records of staff training and competency; ensuring they met requirements of BS ISO 15189. Quality Management Support the Laboratory Manager and Operational Manager to ensure maintenance of the Quality Management System. Produce and maintain documentation to standards as required by accreditation/regulatory bodies under the authority of the Pathology Quality Manager (QM) and Operational Lead. Assist the Laboratory Manager and Operational Manager in planning & organising internal inspections (audit). Participate in internal audit and implement corrective/preventative actions identified. Professional Be personally responsible for obtaining and maintaining HCPC state registration. Take all necessary measures to keep up to date with CPD in the discipline. Be able to work independently and manage own workload working to local and national standards within the HCPC professional code of conduct. Possess strong technical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills and the ability to communicate confidently and effectively with staff at all levels. Be responsible for ensuring that consistently high standards of customer service are delivered. Adhere to all relevant local and organisational policy/procedures Information Technology & Governance Manage and maintain the integrity and accuracy of specialised databases in the laboratory computer system. Support the implementation of the S4 joint LIMS system to include User Acceptance Testing and training of staff. Comply with organisation information governance requirements and ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained. Health & Safety Adhere to service Health and Safety Code of Practice and organisation policy/procedure to ensure regulatory and statutory requirements are met. Take reasonable care to prevent injury to themselves or others who may be affected by their acts or omissions. Immediately report any shortcomings in health and safety procedures and practice. Please refer to the job description for further details.