Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist Training Officer

Barts Health NHS Trust ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Barts Health is the largest NHS organisation in England, and our hospitals cover large areas of East London. Our hospitals are St Bartholomew (SBH) in the City of London, The Royal London Hospital (RLH) in Whitechapel, The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green, Mile End Hospital, Newham University Hospital (NUH) near Plaistow and Whipps Cross Hospital (WXH) in Leytonstone. Essential service laboratories are located at SBH, NUH and WXH. Primary care services and specialist clinical chemistry activities are consolidated at RLH. All laboratories are equipped with Cobas 8000 (Roche diagnostics ) which are connected to integrated automated workflow systems, c8100 and p701 (Roche diagnostics ). The specialist clinical chemistry work areas are equipped with D-100 (Biorad Laboratories), Ultimate 3000 ( Thermo Scientific ), Acquity UPLC ( Waters ), AAnalyst 800 ( Perkin Elmer ), Indiko Plus ( Thermo Scientific ), Capillarys ( Sebia ), Hydrasys ( Sebia ) and SPA plus ( Binding site ). The Point of care testing portfolio includes AQT90 ( Radiometer ), ABL90 Flex ( Radiometer ), ABL800 series ( Radiometer ), Clinitek Status ( Siemens ), i-Stat1 ( Abbott ), i-Stat Alinity ( Abbott ), Freestyle Precision Pro ( Abbott ), Accuchek Informa II ( Roche diagnostics ) and DCA Vantage ( Siemens ). This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking and innovative service. Bring to fruition a vision of delivering high quality training and competency assessment through an electronic learning management system for one of the largest networked laboratories within the NHS. We are looking to appoint a dynamic and highly motivated Specialist Biomedical Scientist Training Officer (Band 7) who has expertise in laboratory training and emerging training modalities. The successful Band 7 candidate is expected to work in different work areas and across the different Barts Health laboratories. To support the clinical services of the Trust and meeting the needs of our patients, participation in the extended day, weekend, bank holiday rosters will be required. The successful Band 7 candidate MUST be registered with the HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist AND hold the following * CPSM Log book ( Clinical Biochemistry ) if qualified before 2003. OR * Registration portfolio IBMS ( Clinical Biochemistry 2003 to 2004 ) and Diploma in Biomedical Science IBMS ( Blood Sciences 2005 ). OR * Specialist Diploma IBMS ( Clinical Biochemistry 2005 onwards ) * MSc Biomedical Science or equivalent qualification at MSc level. Compliance to these criteria is mandatory and must be clearly recorded on application. For further details / informal visits contact: If you require further information or would like to arrange an informal visit please contact Greg Dearman Lead Biomedical Scientist greg.dearman@nhs.net Employment Type: FULL_TIME