Employer: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Hampshire
Salary: £26,565 - £35,577
Type: Permanent
Expires: 31 Aug 2017
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a number of opportunities for Biomedical Scientists within the field of Biochemistry. Our diagnostic services are on two sites, with our main automated laboratory and specialist assays based at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke and our Rapid Response Laboratory at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. In addition we support 2 community hospitals and 3 independent hospitals, providing care to over 500,000 patients. The Trust also provides treatment for complex conditions including liver cancer, colorectal cancer and is a national surgical service for a rare cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei.
Staff will be able to work on both sites on a rotational basis to enable their career development. Staff will be encouraged to develop expertise in their areas of interest for example automation and robotics, Immunology or manual Biochemistry. The Basingstoke laboratory was accredited to ISO15189:2012 standards in 2014; and the Winchester laboratory have full CPA accreditation.
Our opportunities:
Within Biochemistry we now have permanent vacancies primarily based at our Rapid Response Laboratory at Winchester for:
Specialist Biomedical Scientists (Band 6) – candidates must be qualified to BSc level and have an IBMS Specialist Diploma in Biochemistry.
We are committed to the training and development of our staff, and actively encourage staff to develop their careers which may include funding of relevant Master degree courses, IBMS Certificate and Diplomas, external courses and management qualifications. The department is accredited as a training laboratory by the IBMS for both registration and specialist portfolios.
We provide a 24/7 diagnostic service and therefore we can offer flexible full time and part time hours covering day, evening, night and weekends.
If you have the qualifications and experience and wish to develop your knowledge and skills in Biochemistry, we are waiting to hear from you.
For further details / informal visits contact:
For further information on this role, please contact the RHCH Blood Science Operational Manager Stephen Knight on 01962 824467 or Karen Harrison Operational Manager, Biochemistry, Basingstoke site on 01256 313284).
Contact: Stephen Knight
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