Biomedical Scientist - Microbiology

Job description

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Applications are invited from suitably qualified HCPC registered Biomedical Scientists with strong post HCPC registration experience in a diagnostic laboratory who have completed the specialist portfolio in Microbiology. However, consideration may be given to candidates newly HCPC registered with strong Microbiology experience.

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is located on the edge of the market town of Aylesbury, North-West of London in central Buckinghamshire, with a direct rail link to Marylebone Station in London. It is well known for being the birthplace of the Paralympics and houses a world famous spinal unit along with the regional burns and plastics unit, maternity, cancer care and ophthalmic unit.

The laboratory operates a seven day rota and qualified Biomedical Scientists will be expected to participate in the shift system to contribute towards the continuity of care for patients in the Trust hospitals. The laboratory is covered for 24 hours and staff will be expected to be part of that cover.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be part of a friendly team working in the various sections of this busy Microbiology/Serology Department based at Stoke Mandeville providing a service for the hospitals in the Trust and surrounding community. You will need to be motivated, highly reliable, trustworthy and able to work to tight deadlines and under extreme pressure. The laboratory processes more than 400,000 specimens a year and is well equipped with analysers such as the Mast UriSystem, Serosep EntericBio, BD Bactec and MGIT, Bruker MALDI ToF, Biofire FilmArray, Cepheid GeneXpert, BD Kiestra InoqulA, BD Phoenix, BD Max, Hologic Panther Fusion, Abbott Alinity and the Liaison XI.

You will play a key role in helping to deliver and develop our comprehensive, clinical microbiology/serology service. With much new technology throughout the department, you will rotate throughout and learn all aspects of the diagnostic microbiology departments. You will help to meet quality standards necessary for accreditation, and ensure that protocols are followed and documentation maintained in a way that maintains Quality, Health, Safety and Security for individuals, the Department and the Trust

You will be expected to actively participate in the training and development of technical, medical and support staff as well as be proactive in your own development and that of the service.

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