Specialist Services Operational Lead

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Dr Stephen Gibbons

Consultant Clinical Scientist

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Job Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to lead and further develop the Specialist Services Laboratory at Leeds. Working closely with the wider leadership team, the successful candidate will provide operational and strategic oversight of a busy laboratory service. We would invite applications from individuals who can demonstrate a passion for laboratory medicine, an enthusiasm for quality improvement and a strong team working ethic.

We encourage all candidates to contact us to discuss the role and we can offer informal visits to our laboratories for interested candidates.

Interviews will be held in person.

Why you should join our Team

The successful candidate will join the Specialist Services team, which is located at St James’s University Hospital. This is an exciting time to join one of the largest Pathology departments in the country. Our new state of the art Pathology building (Centre for Laboratory Medicine) is now operational and all services will have transferred in the coming months. It is a progressive and highly patient-focused service and encompasses; Metabolic, Toxicology (drugs of abuse), Trace metals and Immunosuppressant monitoring, Steroid Endocrinology, Biochemical Genetics, Newborn screening, Antenatal screening and the Haemoglobinopathy service.

What you will bring to the role

Candidates will be well organised and able to manage and prioritise their workload successfully. Excellent communication skills are essential, as well as the ability to cultivate and maintain good working relationships with service users, departmental colleagues and senior managers. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships.

An important part of the role is the continual service development through evaluation of processes, services and technologies to meet the requirement of our current and future users. The candidate ideally will have some experience of change management and service transformation.

The successful candidate must have HCPC registration and possess an MSc or equivalent postgraduate qualification. A recognised management qualification at certificate or diploma level, as well as proven management experience would advantageous.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

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. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do. All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential.

West Yorkshire is a vibrant county with a very diverse social, art and cultural history. With excellent road and rail networks, getting into the beautiful surrounding countryside is easy. West Yorkshire cities and towns boast excellent restaurants, pubs, bars and live music venues, with critically acclaimed museums and galleries, beautiful parks and gardens.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.