Biomedical Scientist

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust ,
Frimley, Surrey
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BERKSHIRE & SURREY PATHOLOGY SERVICES (A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust) 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. Now that we are celebrating running the service for a population of over 800,000 people, with a catchment area across four counties, we need new people like 'You' with fresh ideas and a great attitude to come and join us on our journey! We are looking for a BMS Band 5 or a Band 6 position depending on experience and/or specialist portfolio with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the South of England. We can offer: innovative practices, strong, personal and professional development, laboratories at the forefront of the national modernising pathology agenda, forward thinking and team orientated staff, regular social events We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated BMS to complement the Microbiology Department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services particularly Frimley Park Hospital site. The laboratory is currently developed with a Kiestra system, MALDITOF and PCR techniques. Applications are invited from HCPC registered BMS staff who have completed the IBMS Specialist Portfolio or equivalent for the Band 6 position. Those still completing their Specialist portfolio may also be considered. 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 earlies, lates, weekends and on call duties during the week. Our busy laboratory is fully accredited with UKAS 151089 and HCPC training status. You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shift system and on occasion may be required to work at other network sites such as Wexham Park to maintain quality, training and service requirements. There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected hospital trusts - We have three main hospitals: Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We also run outpatient clinics and diagnostic services from Aldershot, Farnham, Fleet, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Chalfont St Peter. Recently we have invested 150m in new facilities to create the best environments for our patients and staff. Our projects include new state-of-the-art Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park and a newly planned care hospital in Ascot. 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. So whether you use our services or are just visiting you can expect us to be Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health. Whether you want to broaden your expertise, strengthen your skills or make the move into management. It's one of the reasons our staff consistently rate us among the best places to work in the NHS. For further details / informal visits contact: Marcial Navarro on 01276526958 or email marcial.navarro@nhs.net Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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