Biomedical Scientist
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 5 hours ago
City: Camberley, England
Contract type: Full time
Job Overview
Welcome to Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for considering us as your choice of employer.
We take great pride in our staff and we believe that investing in ‘You’ is key in our ability and capacity to deliver high quality services and patient care across Frimley Park, Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals.
We are looking for energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated Registered Biomedical Scientist (Band 5) who are looking for permanent posts to complement the Bacteriology Department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services. The laboratory is currently developed with a Kiestra system, MALDITOF and PCR techniques. Applications are invited from HCPC registered BMS staff.
You will work in rotation with other staff in all sections of the laboratory. You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills. You will be expected to participate in the full shift rota, covering early and late shifts, weekends and on call duties during the week. Our busy laboratory is fully accredited with UKAS 15189 and HCPC training status.
You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shift system and may be required to work at other network sites such as Wexham Park to maintain quality, training and service requirements.
Main duties of the job
Under supervision, perform diagnostic microbiology investigations on a wide range of clinical specimens to support patient care and treatment. Duties include the preparation, processing, and analysis of samples such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, faeces, sputum, tissue, and other bodily fluids or secretions. You will be responsible for detecting and identifying bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens using both manual and automated techniques. This includes working with culture plates, microscopy, and advanced laboratory analysers, in conjunction with the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), to ensure accurate and timely reporting of results. The role involves developing interpretive skills to assess and act on laboratory findings under the guidance of senior staff. You will contribute to the delivery of a safe, efficient, and high-quality microbiology service, ensuring compliance with laboratory protocols and quality standards. Collaboration with clinical and laboratory colleagues is essential to support effective diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
Welcome to Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for considering us as your choice of employer.
We take great pride in our staff and we believe that investing in ‘You’ is key in our ability and capacity to deliver high quality services and patient care across Frimley Park, Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals.
We are looking for energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated Registered Biomedical Scientist (Band 5) who are looking for permanent posts to complement the Bacteriology Department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services. The laboratory is currently developed with a Kiestra system, MALDITOF and PCR techniques. Applications are invited from HCPC registered BMS staff.
You will work in rotation with other staff in all sections of the laboratory. You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills. You will be expected to participate in the full shift rota, covering early and late shifts, weekends and on call duties during the week. Our busy laboratory is fully accredited with UKAS 15189 and HCPC training status.
You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shift system and may be required to work at other network sites such as Wexham Park to maintain quality, training and service requirements.
Main duties of the job
Under supervision, perform diagnostic microbiology investigations on a wide range of clinical specimens to support patient care and treatment. Duties include the preparation, processing, and analysis of samples such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, faeces, sputum, tissue, and other bodily fluids or secretions. You will be responsible for detecting and identifying bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens using both manual and automated techniques. This includes working with culture plates, microscopy, and advanced laboratory analysers, in conjunction with the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), to ensure accurate and timely reporting of results. The role involves developing interpretive skills to assess and act on laboratory findings under the guidance of senior staff. You will contribute to the delivery of a safe, efficient, and high-quality microbiology service, ensuring compliance with laboratory protocols and quality standards. Collaboration with clinical and laboratory colleagues is essential to support effective diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist
- BSc Biomedical Science or equivalent
- IBMS Certificate of Competence willing to undergo relevant training to ensure sound relevant knowledge
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science
- ECDL
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Some experience of diagnostic microbiology
- Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures
- Ability to ensure good laboratory practice Understanding that work relates directly to patient care
- Molecular biology technical expertise
- Committed to working in healthcare environment
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate complex information in all media, including email, phone etc
- Good hand eye coordination for technically demanding procedures
- Able to plan day to day organization of area of work
- Competent in use of main Microsoft applications
- Experience & knowledge of duties required to support specialist biomedical scientific staff gained by significant experience in a similar role
- Understanding of audit process
- Ability to perform some statistical analysis of data & interpretation
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
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