Main area Blood Sciences
Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift post - includes nights and weekends)
Job ref 193-7028802NCG
Employer Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town Reading
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 24/04/2025 23:59
Band 6 - Biomedical Scientist
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
Band 6 - Biomedical Scientist
We have an opportunity in blood sciences available for a Specialist Biomedical Scientist at Band 6. This is a multidisciplinary rotational post. Blood sciences department include haematology, blood transfusion and biochemistry.
If you are looking for a BMS position with a desire to work as part of one of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the South of England, we offer you:
* Strong, personal, and professional development.
* A laboratory at the forefront of the national Modernising Pathology agenda.
* Forward thinking and team orientated staff.
We can help you to achieve these by supporting your development by providing access to courses up to and including master’s degree. In addition, we support development of staff with internal and external courses for management, Health & Safety and Quality management.
Our laboratory has accreditation for UKAS ISO:15189 and is also accredited with MHRA, and is accredited as a training laboratory by the IBMS for both registration and specialist portfolios leading to HCPC registration.
Main duties of the job
* To ensure personal competency in all areas of blood sciences.
* To work towards being competent as multidisciplinary BMS to meet the knowledge and the competency level of a Specialist Practitioner, via a recognised blood sciences portfolio route or an MSc with equivalent experience.
* To highly use specialist knowledge, interpretive skills, complex analysers and IT to deliver blood sciences Service to our users.
* To recommend and perform tests in the specialised areas of Blood sciences.
* To perform the initial screening and further investigation of specialist diagnostic tests producing complex quality diagnostic results to aid patient treatment and care.
* To authorise reports as directed by department procedures and guidelines.
* To train other staff as required and directed.
* To work in such a way to ensure the most effective use of non-pay resources to contribute to the efficiency of the departmental budgets and maintain the competitive advantage of the departments service.
The successful candidate will be expected to participate on the Shift rota which will include late, night and weekend shifts.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities. The Trust strives to provide high quality, compassionate care for our patients and their families.
Our values:
* Aspirational
* Resourceful
The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specifications attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of CPD
* MSC in blood sciences
Experience
* Worked in a blood sciences or one blood sciences disciplines Laboratory as a stated registered BMS
* Participated on out of hours rota
* Minimum 1 year of experience
* Experience of Audits and quality management systems
Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information. All new appointments to the Trust, with the exception of executive positions, are subject to a 6 month probationary period.
The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies.
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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