Biomedical Scientist Specialist

You will be working as part of a clinical team, including doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and the role you perform will directly contribute to saving and improving patients lives. There are many opportunities for career advancement. You may use your knowledge to specialise in an area vital to the operation of a modern diagnostic service such as Quality Control, training and education or research and development.

We will provide you with an extensive induction and training programme and ongoing development to support you in your role and achieving your career ambitions.

• Performing, analysing, recording and interpreting a wide range of laboratory investigations and technical procedures relating to patient test results and blood products, with the support of the team.
• Monitoring workflow, procedures, equipment and storage facilities and taking appropriate action to resolve problems within agreed timescales.
• Analyse, validate, interpret, record, transmit and report the results of routine and complex investigations.
• Handling blood samples and operate a range of laboratory analysers and equipment.
• Supervising, training and mentoring junior scientific and support staff.
• Providing specialist advice to a range of service users.

You will be required to participate in a shift working rota which will include evening, weekend and public holiday workings. You will be required to provide cover in times of operational difficulty, with reasonable notice.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.