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37.5 hours per week, full time (Flexible working practices including potential hybrid on-site/remote working and including enhancements for weekend rota.)Join us to make a meaningful difference to patients lives

If your passion is Genomics and you want to be at the forefront of improving outcomes for patients, then theres no better place to be.

We are currently recruiting for dedicated individuals to join our growing team in the Genomics Central Laboratory at Leeds St Jamess University Hospital, as Clinical Scientists.

Working closely with colleagues at Leeds and across the wider North East and Yorkshire (NEY) region, youll be responsible for the:

Delivery and scientific development of a high-quality diagnostic laboratory genetics service

Scientific leadership in service provision for a specified clinical area Providing advice to consultants and other service users

Making contributions to shape national best-practice

JOB PURPOSE:

responsible for delivery and scientific development of a high quality diagnostic Laboratory Genetics Service. Scientific lead in service provision for specified clinical area. Provide advice to Consultants and other users. Participate in forming national best-practice policy. 3. JOB DIMENSIONS The Leeds Genetics Laboratory at St Jamess University Hospital provides a diagnostic Genetic Service to the population of Yorkshire and Humber. Specialist diagnostic genetic services are provided at a national and international level, using a current annual budget of approximately £3million and with over 70 staff, of which 35 are trained Clinical Scientists.

The laboratory processes over 25,000 genetics samples per year, and generates around 20,000 reports, many of which are highly complex. Please see job description for further information.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

• HCPC-registered Clinical Scientist with evidenced Genomics experience (including Clinical Scientists from other STP disciplines); or
• Final year (or late second year) Clinical Scientist trainee on an accredited training programme (e.g. STP or equivalence) with evidenced genomic experience; or
• MSC or PHD in Genetics, with significant laboratory and analytical experience in a relevant clinical setting*; or
• HCPC-registered biomedical scientists (BMS) with genomics experience in a relevant clinical setting*

* Would be appointed at an appropriate grade until HCPC registration as a Clinical Scientist by portfolio submission via ACS which you should expect to be able to deliver within 12m.

Our 160-strong workforce at Leeds St James Hospital provides the Leeds Central Genomics Laboratory for the NEY Genomic Laboratory Hub. The NEY GLH serves around 9 million patients regionally and brings together genomic expertise across NHS Trusts in Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield. We also provide highly specialised tests for inherited cancers for the wider NHS.

The Leeds Central Genomics laboratory is responsible for delivering the high throughput Next Generation Sequencing facility for the GLH, based around Nova Seq, Next Seq
550DX and Genexus platforms with associated technical and bioinformatics support to deliver an efficient service, in addition…