Advanced Biomedical Scientist - Blood Transfusion

We are looking for an experienced Biomedical Scientist to join our well established Blood Transfusion team as an Advanced Biomedical Scientist at Colchester Hospital. We are a friendly department who have close working relationship with our clinical consultant staff.

We have a well-designed, up-to-date lab with Grifols analysers, blood track and Contronics temperature monitoring system. For quality management we use Q-Pulse system. We are MHRA compliant and have UKAS accreditation.

Our vision is to deliver innovations, high-performing pathology services that is focussed on our customers and delivers high quality and fully compliant services.

We are clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be achieved by working together to meet our service users needs and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals.

We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best pathology staff. You will play an integral part in the development of the Blood Transfusion and Haematology team and their careers.

You should be a self-motivated individual who is professional, innovative and flexible to join our hardworking laboratory team.

If you want to work with us to develop your own career, support others in their career and help us achieve our vision then we would like to hear from you.

About our pathology service - https://youtu.be/FBrydUl_c5w

Our pathology department is part of the collaborative East Coast Pathology Network (see attached document)

In this role you will be responsible for the quality and training of the team, supervision of daily operations and staff management and deputising for the Blood Transfusion Manager.

Duties include (but not limited to): supervising all Blood Transfusion sections and managing the daily organisation and staffing allocated, ensuring the analysers are maintained correctly and undertaking any troubleshooting that is required.

Manage the performance of manual, semi-automated, specialist and fully automated laboratory investigations within a defined service area accurately and efficiently.

Day to day management of stock control and usage. This may include maintaining Blood Transfusion stock levels and records and monitor usage to ensure efficient use where appropriate.

Deputise for the Transfusion Laboratory Manager in their absence, so a good knowledge of both routine and specialist Blood Transfusion is required.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mohammed Elkarim Job title: Transfusion Laboratory Manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 01206 742078