Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Pathology | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for a Specialist Biomedical Scientist with skills in Blood Transfusion, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The Lister Pathology department are looking for a Full time HCPC registered Biomedical scientist, to work in the Pathology services at East and North Hertfordshire Trust, in the Blood Sciences department. Duties will include routine operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of the various analysers in the Blood Transfusion department. We are multi discipline laboratory and cross training is encouraged in other blood science disciplines. Staff development is vital to the organisation and support will be provided to become a multidisciplinary member of staff within the Blood sciences department. Post holder would take part in the 24-hour shift system, consisting of 8 hr and 12 hr shifts, including nights once trained. Come join our organisation and play a vital part in the growth and development of our service and in return, we will provide an environment that values its staff and offers excellent personal development and career opportunities. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Duties involve processing specialist investigations in department. Provide specialist advice to clinicians as to appropriateness of tests and timescales. Provide specialist service e.g. training, problem solving for specialist requirement. You will work independently and lead on specialist area as directed by Lead BMS. Act as mentor for more junior scientific and support staff. You will work flexibly in reflection of service needs this may include an extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hour, 7 days per week service.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.