Senior Biomedical Scientist (Special Biochemistry)

An exciting 12 month secondment has arisen for a suitably qualified HCPC registered individual to become a member of the Derbyshire Pathology Clinical Biochemistry Team as a full time Senior Biomedical Scientist in the Specialist Clinical Biochemistry section at the Royal Derby Hospital.
Applicants for the post will need to be enthusiastic, maintain and develop high standards of quality and enjoy working as part of a team as well as being able to work alone under their own initiative.
Understanding of UKAS ISO 15189 standards, staff training, Health & Safety requirements, and analytical troubleshooting techniques is essential.
The Biochemistry Laboratory provides a wide range of assays on our state-of-the-art Roche Cobas analytical platforms (Cobas 8000 and Cobas 6000), linked with both pre-analytics (Roche MPA 8100) and post-analytics (Roche p612 RSA), and also on our Phadia ImmunoCap250 platforms, giving plenty of variety in our busy automated laboratory. We also have a Specialist laboratory providing a proteins service, using agarose gel and capillary zone electrophoresis (Sebia Hydrasys and Capillarys), together with HPLC Chromsystems, and Sciex Tandem MS .
As part of a University Hospital the training and development of staff is one of our five Trust objectives. You will be provided with support in your professional career development and encouraged to be involved in the development of others., As a Health Professions Council (HCPC) registered Biomedical Scientist, to lead and supervise the day to day delivery of a diagnostic service, within the specialist clinical biochemistry section of Clinical Biochemistry, which includes tandem mass spectrometry, HPLC, capillary zone, agar gel and isoelectric focusing electrophoresis and specific protein analysis.
To provide advanced Biomedical Science technical support within a section by providing training, advice, technical development, troubleshooting and supervision
To prepare, and process diagnostic investigations on biological specimens in accordance with agreed protocols and standard operational procedures (SOP) ensuring the department maintains standards for UKAS (ISO15189), Health and Care Professions Council, Institute of Biomedical Science, and Health and Safety regulations.
Provides training to staff, updating training documents, and ensuring training is undertaken according to the training policy and training programmes of the department to maintain IBMS training approval and UKAS standards.
Closing date of applications: 13 January 2025
Interview date: 27 January 2025

Band 7
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.
As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it's important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.
Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme
To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.
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As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
+ Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
+ On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
+ A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
+ Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
+ We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust - over 3,300 per week
+ An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day - 6th largest in the country
+ Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
+ We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
+ We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
+ We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day, At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.
For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working - working partly in the trust/partly at home.
Why don't you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what's possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.
We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.
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