Clinical Scientist Section Head

Job summary

You will be working as part of a clinical team, including clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals and the role you perform will directly contribute to saving and improving patients lives. You will be part of the H&I Services for hospitals in Birmingham. The Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory (H&I) carries out HLA typing, antibody screening support of solid organ and stem cell transplantation, the provision of specialist blood products and immunogenetic and disease association testing. Working within a modern laboratory environment you will be operating some of the latest laboratory analysers and testing systems to produce accurate and timely test results. You will have the opportunity to participate in research and development projects within the department. We will provide you with an extensive induction and training programme and ongoing development to support you in your role and achieving your career ambitions.

Main duties of the job

You will be a clinical scientist with highly specialised transplant and/or transfusion related knowledge and scope of practice. You will contribute to a clinical laboratory service; performing, analysing, interpreting, documenting and reporting routine and specialist/complex investigations and providing advice to clinicians. You will manage the activities of a discrete section of the laboratory, responsible for the standard of work of their team. You will be a leading participant in research and development activities. Your team will be involved in the provision of services for solid organ and stem cell transplantation for hospitals served by the Birmingham Blood Centre.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.