Band 7 Histology - Section Lead Biomedical Scientist

We have a Band 7 Section Lead (Specimen Reception and Dissection) vacancy within the Histology department based at Queen's Hospital, Romford. The department receives 40,000 patient episodes(requests) per annum amounting to 70,000 plus specimens from a full range of specialties. For this post you must be HCPC registered, have completed the IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Cellular Pathology (equivalence- 8 years recent experience working as a BMS in Histology) with FIBMS and or MSC in Biomedical Science / Cellular Pathology . You must be currently working in a routine histology laboratory with experience of work in this field as a necessity. You should be able to demonstrate experience of leading and managing staff daily. You should be friendly, professional and pro-active, self-motivating, innovative and be able to demonstrate excellent communication (verbal and written), organisation and manual dexterity skills. You need to demonstrate a patient focused approach to work and detail, The post holder will be the responsible person for the day-to-day running of the Histology Specimen Reception which includes macroscopic examination and dissection. They will be the main point of contact for specimen reception related issues and between the Speciality Doctors that work in dissection. Delegated duties will include supervision of trainees, training of all staff in the section, quality and health and safety.The purpose of the role is to support the diagnostic service provided by the department to the trust.

how you are committed to continual improvement of self, the service and your team. The department operates Monday to Friday but will move to seven day working in the summer of 2025.This post is based at Queens Hospital, but all staff must be prepared to work at King George Hospital if required.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.