PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Management To contribute to the provision of the Transplant Immunology service to nationally and internationally accepted standards (UKAS/EFI) and within the available resources. To contribute to the development of policies and protocols, ensuring these are implemented within the work area. To contribute to the testing and selection of analytical equipment To provide clinical and scientific leadership and training of staff in specific areas. To attend and contribute to departmental meetings related to management, service development and policy development. To ensure that clinical incidents and complaints are reported and used to improve practice, in line with Trust policies, procedures and national guidelines. To implement policies and procedures within the work area. To be responsible for planning own service provision. To provide advice to service users as required on all aspects of the provision of pathology service. To use the laboratory database and associated software to locate appropriate patient & laboratory data, provide interpretation and resolve and correct erroneous information, compile and analyse statistics and prepare clinical and scientific presentations. Clinical To provide a clinical technical and clinical advisory services for Transplant Immunology across the region. To provide specialist professional advice in one or more specific areas of the service. To provide clinical advice to medical staff in charge of patient management, if necessary challenging that management and advising an alternative approach or treatment. To undertake clinical audit of service effectiveness and to contribute to discussions on clinical audit in other medical specialities. To be available to regularly answer all clinical enquiries into the department, providing advice and interpretation and dealing with all clinical or laboratory problems that arise. Scientific To contribute to the development and selection of analytical methods employed and to maintain full awareness of their reactions, limitations and causes of interference or error. This knowledge is essential for the validation of reports, identifying errors and explaining anomalous results to clinical staff. To provide leadership and guidance to BMS and ancillary staff on matters of quality assurance related to laboratory analyses and to take appropriate action when errors are identified. To use patterns of abnormalities in laboratory results together with clinical details on a patient and general clinical knowledge and experience to formulate advice on differential diagnoses and the appropriateness of treatment. To maintain an up to date and expert scientific and clinical knowledge and to contribute to the knowledge of colleagues. To critically evaluate analytical methods and equipment prior to introduction and maintain at highest possible standards within the resources available. To be responsible for the safe use of expensive and highly complex equipment. Research and Development To conceive, initiate, and undertake Research and Development projects. To ensure that opportunities that present are taken up and involving and cooperating with clinical colleagues from other disciplines where appropriate. To participate in and advise upon ongoing Research and Development projects initiated in other clinical areas, which involve any aspect of laboratory work. To undertake collaborative Research & Development of a clinical nature where the investigations lead to better understanding of disease or the contribution of laboratory facilities. To participate in Clinical Audit with colleagues within Pathology at local, regional and national level. To present scientific and clinical research data at local and regional meetings and at national and international conferences. Training To provide postgraduate teaching sessions in Transplant Immunology to medical, nursing and laboratory staff. To supervise and provide in-service training to trainee Clinical Scientists and Biomedical Scientists towards their required professional qualifications. To participate regularly in departmental clinical case discussions and seminars. Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post: To be registered as a Clinical Scientist with the Health Care Professions Council and as an independent practitioner work within its rules and regulations and the national guidelines of the profession and UKAS. To provide leadership in the department in the area of service quality ensuring that all departmental staff focus on quality and patient safety. To provide an interface for discussion of errors and a means to learn from them. To be professionally accountable for provision of the clinical service and use evidence based practice, audits and published research to improve the service. To conduct clinical audit of the service and contribute towards the development of best practice. The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment. All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users. This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system. The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc. The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role. As an advanced practitioner to expect to be telephoned at any time for advice or consultation on all and any topic. This will often have a clinical urgency and require other tasks to be put on hold or delegated to a colleague while the consultation is in progress. The working day is largely unpredictable having to resolve problems of scientific and clinical nature and telephone enquiries may involve a detailed search of the literature, formulating detailed advice and relaying this back, where it is not possible to give an immediate response. Some times these interruptions are interrupted by further telephone calls so can end up dealing with 3 or more tasks at the same time and having to prioritise which to complete first.