Job summary
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE for 2023?
Join our POCT team and train to become HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist.
Would you like to join the largest and most forwarded thinking NHS Trust in the UK which has delivered the biggest digital transformation in 2022? Our new EPR has revolutionised how we deliver our Biochemistry and POCT services including a fully integrated single LIMS (beaker) and Siemens Poccelaerator middleware across all our 4 sites.
In addition, Biochemistry have invested in training and staff development appointing a dedicated Training Lead to support and deliver all aspects of academic courses from certificates of achievement, registration, specialist and higher specialist IBMS portfolios, apprenticeships and leadership and management qualifications. The department also has dedicated funding to support MSC's, top up modules or IBMS Certificates of Expert Practice. Due to our vast array of services from Routine Roche automation, Specialist Chemistry, Paediatric and Newborn screening and UKAS accredited Point of Care, we pride ourselves in growing our own and enabling opportunity across all our sites to develop staff and provide a strong and sustained service for the future.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate of Biochemistry and POCT is across 4 sites and all sites have state of the art equipment, including Werfen Blood Gas analyser and Nova Glucose meters.
The post holder will act as a trainee Biomedical Scientist providing POCT scientific services to patients as an aid to clinical diagnosis. The successful candidate will be required to complete the IBMS registration portfolio and successful achievement of HCP registration by undertake a wide range of complex analytical procedures, performing a range of manual, semi-automated and automated tests using scientific knowledge and experience to comment upon and validate results in line with ISO 15189 .
Suitable candidates will require an IBMS accredited degree.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration within Biomedical Science
- IBMS approved Biomedical Sciences Degree or Equivalent in relevant discipline
- Evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of working as part of a team
- Good communication skills including ability to communicate with peers and senior staff and clinical users of service
- Well-developed physical skills, especially in the manipulation of pipettes and other laboratory equipment. Also, must be adept and precise when handling samples etc
- Able to work unsupervised, to organise workload, and to organise and train less qualified, or less experienced staff
- Able to demonstrate a high degree of skill and knowledge, where result interpretation can be highly subjective.
- Able to prioritise analytical work and plan day-to-day organisation of area of work
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post-registration speciality training, in accordance with IBMS guidelines or equivalent
- Extensive post-registration experience in Biochemistry as a BMS practitioner (band 5).
- Have extensive working knowledge of laboratory areas, including both practical and theoretical knowledge of the various methods employed
- Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of the basic physiology, pathology, and scientific principles relevant to Clinical Biochemistry
- Able to operate and maintain complex automated and semiautomated equipment
- Display experience and competency in all laboratory areas.
- Able to contribute to assessing and suggesting changes to laboratory operating procedures
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of quality systems, with reference to ISO/UKAS
- Knowledge of Laboratory IT programmes and good key board skills
Desirable
- Development of special interest and expertise in one or more areas of the laboratory, for example audit, quality, R&D, safety, training, Automated Biochemistry, Toxicology, Immunoassay or LC-MS
- Knowledge of common IT programmes such as Word / Excel.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration within Biomedical Science
- IBMS approved Biomedical Sciences Degree or Equivalent in relevant discipline
- Evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of working as part of a team
- Good communication skills including ability to communicate with peers and senior staff and clinical users of service
- Well-developed physical skills, especially in the manipulation of pipettes and other laboratory equipment. Also, must be adept and precise when handling samples etc
- Able to work unsupervised, to organise workload, and to organise and train less qualified, or less experienced staff
- Able to demonstrate a high degree of skill and knowledge, where result interpretation can be highly subjective.
- Able to prioritise analytical work and plan day-to-day organisation of area of work
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post-registration speciality training, in accordance with IBMS guidelines or equivalent
- Extensive post-registration experience in Biochemistry as a BMS practitioner (band 5).
- Have extensive working knowledge of laboratory areas, including both practical and theoretical knowledge of the various methods employed
- Able to demonstrate a sound understanding of the basic physiology, pathology, and scientific principles relevant to Clinical Biochemistry
- Able to operate and maintain complex automated and semiautomated equipment
- Display experience and competency in all laboratory areas.
- Able to contribute to assessing and suggesting changes to laboratory operating procedures
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge and application of quality systems, with reference to ISO/UKAS
- Knowledge of Laboratory IT programmes and good key board skills
Desirable
- Development of special interest and expertise in one or more areas of the laboratory, for example audit, quality, R&D, safety, training, Automated Biochemistry, Toxicology, Immunoassay or LC-MS
- Knowledge of common IT programmes such as Word / Excel.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust
POCT 4th Floor, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester University Foundation Trust, Oxford Road Campus, Oxford Road,
Manchester
M13 9WL
Employer's website
https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
