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Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Immunohistochemistry Deputy Lead- Annex 21
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: Cellular Pathology
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 349-CSS-6966557C*
Site: Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata, in line with Annex 21.
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Whatever you’re looking for in your career, it is all here for you at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. With state-of-the-art facilities, you can advance your career in Histopathology, and take your knowledge further. As the largest Cellular Pathology department in the country, we’re looking for talented people to join our diverse teams on our Wythenshawe Hospital and Oxford Road Campus sites, where you’ll have the opportunity to work cross-site, offering exposure to specialist training and experiences, for example, in Electron Microscopy and Ophthalmic Histopathology.
Main duties of the job
We support and encourage our Specialist Biomedical Scientists to undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities, which could be internal talks and seminars, as well as attending approved courses. We also have a dedicated Training Lead, supporting the Directorate strategy for training, as well as training officers within each department. The department has full HCPC training status for pre and post registration IBMS portfolios, and full ISO 15189 accreditation.
Our laboratories have begun the implementation of SMART automation with the installation of the Sakura Tissue-Tek AutoTEC A120 automated embedding systems and Sakura Tissue-Tek Xpress X120, due for installation in 2023. This will ensure that we’re at the forefront of investing in new technologies to deliver and improve patient care. The service has an extensive Immunohistochemistry repertoire, including prognostic markers in Lung and Breast Cancer and Biomedical Scientist led scoring for breast markers, including DDISH and PDL1 for triple negative breast cancer.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of the Greater Manchester Pathology Network, the department is also working towards implementing digital imaging to support the Greater Manchester Strategy for Digital Pathology, with equipment due to be validated in 2023.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC Registration
* IBMS validated Biomedical Sciences Degree or Equivalent
* Evidence of CPD in accordance with Health Professions Council guidance
* Completed IBMS Specialist Diploma, or appropriate short courses or individual learning programs, or evidence of equivalent knowledge and experience
* Train for trainers
* IBMS Immunohistochemistry DEP
Skills
* Evidence of working as part of a team
* Good communication skills including ability to communicate with peers and senior staff and clinical users of service
* Able to work unsupervised, to organise workload, and to organise and train less qualified or less experienced staff
Knowledge and Experience
* Evidence of post-registration speciality training, in accordance with IBMS guidelines or equivalent
* Have extensive working knowledge of laboratory areas, including both practical and theoretical knowledge of the various methods employed
* Able to operate and maintain complex automated and semi-automated equipment
* Knowledge of Laboratory IT programmes and good keyboard skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Catherine McNulty
Job title: Lead Biomedical Scientist
Email address: catherine.mcnulty@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 291 4804
Additional information:
Name: Rebecca Simmons
Senior Biomedical Scientist - Immunohistochemistry
Email: rebecca.bloor@mft.nhs.uk
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