Specialist Biomedical Scientist / Team Lead

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, experienced Histopathology biomedical scientist to joint our team for 12 months covering maternity leave.

Whilst the core hours of the department are 08:30 - 17:00 with an early shift at 07:00, there are flexible working opportunities available., As a specialist biomedical scientist you will be involved in day to day supervision of a laboratory section, performing quality control, and trouble shooting. The Team lead role is to ensure the throughput of work to ensure that the laboratory turnaround is maintained to provide pathologists with tests in a timely manner to support the diagnostic pathway for cancer patients.

To be successful as a specialist / team leader (Band 6) it is essential that you hold professional registration as a Biomedical Scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and hold the IBMS specialist portfolio in Histopathology . As this is maternity leave cover you must have recent experience working in the NHS as a biomedical scientist.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.