Senior Clinical Scientist | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical Biochemist to join our large team of Clinical Scientists within Blood Sciences at Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, part of Liverpool University Hospitals Trust.

The successful postholder will also join the team in providing a clinical service for the Biochemistry department at Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust, an established model of collaborative service delivery within the Cheshire & Merseyside Pathology Network.

The role will enable your continued development as a Clinical Scientist, with opportunities to gain experience in the core automated and specialist laboratories within Biochemistry, including LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, and QTOF-MS. There will also be ample opportunities to be involved in network-wide projects as we have an ambitious transformation programme to deliver, including a new LIMS and unified primary care order communications system.

The post is suitable for registered Clinical Scientists or those who will complete their STP training by September 2024.

To provide medical staff with a clinical technical and scientific service.

To participate in the duty biochemistry rota, providing clinical interpretive and advisory services on-site at LCL (Liverpool) and WHH (Warrington).

To monitor and maintain the quality of patient results produced especially in the automated section of the department, set nationally by UKAS.

To be involved in the evaluation and introduction of new tests and developments

To be involved in and execute funded research and development projects and support clinical trials.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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To provide all Consultants, junior medical staff, in this and other Trusts and General Practitioners within Liverpool with a timely, highly specialist, clinical, technical and scientific service.

To participate in the duty biochemist rotas in the general clinical chemistry and endocrine sections assuming independent responsibility on such occasions for the clinical authorisation and issue of reports.

To undertake the timely clinical authorisation and reporting of clinical biochemistry test results to clinical staff, frequently requiring urgent interpretation and advice regarding the clinical management of patients, using verbal and/or written communication.

To offer specialist scientific and clinical advice concerning patient investigations and clinical biochemistry results, in highly complex cases when appropriate, using verbal and/or written communication.

To present complex, sensitive or contentious clinical or scientific information to medical and nursing staff and managers within the Trust and other Trusts or Primary Care when appropriate, using professional knowledge and experience.

To have responsibilities within the automated and general chemistry sections, including the ability to perform novel and/or complex assays within the section, and specifically to implement, maintain and monitor quality assurance procedures and take corrective action where the need is identified to ensure accurate and precise patient results.