Senior Biomedical Scientist (Transfusion)

You will join our friendly and enthusiastic team working in the busy Blood Science Laboratory as a Senior Biomedical Scientist within the Haematology & Transfusion department. You will help provide a 24-hour continuous service for the trust and you will help provide medical staff with a high-quality service, assisting your colleagues with providing accurate and timely results. The Blood Transfusion Section Lead has responsibilities for the governance, performance, and quality of all aspects of the department under the direction of senior managers. The post holder will supervise the day to day running of the department to enable the provision of a high-quality Transfusion service that meets UK Pathology Accreditation Standards and BSQR legislation. The post holder will be expected to provide supervision of Transfusion team members, leading both professionally and technically, to ensure completion of the day-to-day work.,

• Undertake manual, semi-automated and fully automated laboratory investigations on a rotational basis play a lead role in Blood Transfusion.
• Ensure that equipment is used in accordance with departmental policies and supplier's instructions.
• Undertake routine and more complex maintenance procedures on the analysers within the Department. To carry out appropriate internal maintenance procedures and maintain maintenance records
• Undertake the repair of complex laboratory analysers and installing replacement components as requested by the supplier.
• Ensure prompt technical validation and authorisation of multiple test sets from laboratory investigations ensuring accuracy and precision as specified by laboratory protocols. Also to assess the validity of the results as to whether conflicting information is due to the pathology of the patient, contamination, or compromised integrity of the sample prior to release of the results for clinical validation.
  
  Applications are sought from Biomedical Scientists who have current HCPC registration and meet the person specification. It is desirable that applicants have either an MSc with a Transfusion specialism, an IBMS Higher Specialist Diploma in Transfusion Science or a Fellowship of the Institute of Biomedical Science (FIBMS) in blood transfusion or transfusion science.
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme