Apprentice Biomedical Scientist (Microbiology)

Job summary

The advertised post is for an Apprentice Biomedical Scientist equivalent to AfC Band 4.

The job role will include:

Completion of a 4-year Level 6 Healthcare Science Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship programme delivered by Nottingham Trent University (including completion of the IBMS Certificate of Competence).

Level 6 Healthcare Science Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship (BSc Hons Applied Biomedical Science) Undergraduate Course | Nottingham Trent University

Working at Medical Laboratory Assistant, Associate Practitioner and Trainee Biomedical Scientist levels across the whole of the Clinical Microbiology Department at defined points throughout the 4-year Apprenticeship programme

Sample receipt, sample processing, test setup and result interpretation.

Liaising with team members within the department, within the trust and external to the trust.

Please note this is a 24/7 service operating with early, core, late and night shifts. The post-holder will be expected to part-take in these shifts as directed by the departmental management team.

Main duties of the job

Completion of a 4-year Level 6 Healthcare Science Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship programme delivered by Nottingham Trent University (including completion of the IBMS Certificate of Competence).

Working as part of the Support Staff team (estimated years 1-2)

Working as a Trainee Biomedical Scientist (estimated years 3-4)

About us

With over 20,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

The Clinical Microbiology service is a comprehensive 24/7 medical microbiology service handling in excess of 900,000 bacteriology and virology samples per year.

We are active in supporting infection prevention, control & diagnostics of a wide range of infections.

The laboratory is fully UKAS accredited and is approved by the IBMS as a Training Centre and has experience in producing both HCPC Registered and Specialist Biomedical Scientists. The department fully supports continuing professional development.

We utilise a range of traditional, semi-automated, automated and specialist molecular techniques in the investigation of bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal pathogens.