Senior Biomedical Scientist

Senior Biomedical Scientist focuses on key responsibilities will be team management including appraisals, equipment management and method performance monitoring/control.

What the role involves

• Key responsibilities will be team management including appraisals, equipment management and method performance monitoring/control.
• The post position is currently in Clinical Biochemistry at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the successful candidate will provide oversite of their section.
• Key attributes of the successful applicant will be the ability to lead and motivate coupled with a strong grounding in the discipline as evidenced from appropriate CPD activities.
• Analyse, interpret, document.
• To liaise/cooperate with hospital clinicians, general practitioners, other healthcare professionals, suppliers/manufacturers and their agents.
• Develop highly specialist skills in all sections of the laboratory via internal rotation.

Skills and requirements

• The successful applicant will join the senior biochemistry BMS team of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and will be expected to work in each of the sections, as.
• The post holder will exercise autonomy within professional and managerial boundaries and will be required to verify and validate completed work.
• The work will include a requirement to work some weekend, night and evening duties as required by departmental rotas.

Candidate fit

• Report both routine and highly complex laboratory investigations of a highly specialised nature commensurate with the professional grade that will impact directly on patient care.

Additional role context

• Applicants should hold an MSc in a Clinical Chemistry related subject or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
• They will play an important role in training new staff and developing existing staff to meet current and future service needs.
• Main duties of the job To supervise/organise staff/work within a section, ensuring work is completed within acceptable timescales and co-ordinate the training of all levels of staf.