Specialist Biomedical Scientist Microbiology

The post holders wouldbe working 37.5 hours/week over 7 days, out of hours and on-call. Participation in the discipline specific on-call service will be required. Rostered Late shifts (12:00 20:00), Saturdays, Sundays and Bank holidays (08:00- 16:00) rota as required.

The Department provides Microbiology services (including Serology and Molecular) to the population of Worcestershire.

The Microbiology Department receives approximately 690,000 specimens per year. The department currently uses the Clinsys Winpath computer LIMS system and iPassport QMS.

This is a modernwell equipped laboratory, with arange of automation including the Biomerieux MALDI-TOF, Vitek, and Virtuo Blood culture analysers, the Sedimax Urine analyser, Mast Urisystem, the VIDAS3, COBAS 6800 and Cepheid Gene Xpert system.

The Department has UKAS accreditation. It is approved by the IBMS as a training laboratory. The Department has a proven track record in training and is committed to further education and personal development of staff through CPD and post-registration training

• Tobe responsible for the work carried out in the designated section, supervising
  
  Biomedical Scientists, associate practitioners and MLA staff, ensuring work is completed in line with service requirements
• Toperform pre-analytical preparation of specimens including matching of specimens and data entry of patient and specimen information into the Laboratory ITsystem with accuracy.
• Analyses potentially infectious samples using a range of highly specialised laboratory procedures, by either manual or automated techniques, to produce results of aquality consistent with excellent patient care. Undertakes these duties in allareas of the Department.
• Carrysout troubleshooting and preventative maintenance on highly complex automated systems. Ensures appropriate records are kept and liaises with senior staff and service engineers where appropriate.
• Tohandle potentially highly infectious material and known highly infectious material, containing Hazard Group 2 & 3 pathogens, in order to perform subjective interpretation of diagnostic investigations and be responsible forthe validity of own results.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate post HCPC registration Laboratory experience
• Specialist knowledge in an NHS microbiology Laboratory.
• Participates in CPD maintaining up to date knowledge in microbiology.
• Understands good laboratory practice and laboratory Health and Safety.

Desirable

• Has participated in out of hours and on on-call
• Experience in Mycology
• Experience in Parasitology
• Good communication skills within the team and users of the department
• Can carry out troubleshooting on equipment or procedures.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist
• IBMS Specialist Portfolio Bacteriology

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job…