Biomedical Scientist/Biomedical Scientist Trainee

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation... Full time
Job Title: Biomedical Scientist/Biomedical Scientist Trainee

We are seeking a highly skilled Biomedical Scientist to join our team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a Biomedical Scientist, you will play a crucial role in providing a comprehensive Point of Care Testing (POCT) service, ensuring the accurate and timely analysis of biological specimens.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Test Result Analysis: Provide timely and accurate test results using appropriate equipment, both automated and manual.
  2. Blood Sciences Analysis: Perform routine and specialist Blood Sciences analyses, validation, interpretation, and reporting of results.
  3. Equipment Maintenance: Maintain complex analytical equipment, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing downtime.
  4. Staff Supervision: Supervise, teach, advise, and inform all grades of staff, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
  5. Compliance: Comply with Standards of Proficiency for State Registration, maintaining patient confidentiality and adhering to Caldicott principles.
Knowledge and Personal Development:
  1. Technical Knowledge: Build upon your acquired technical and analytical knowledge, achieved through specialist training and experience.
  2. CPD: Maintain specialist technical and analytical knowledge by participating in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities.
  3. Registration: Maintain state registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC) by complying with Standards of Proficiency and Conduct.
  4. Standards of Work Practice: Ensure compliance with all local and national standards of work practice, including Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA).
  5. Specialized Procedures: Maintain the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform specialized procedures during rotation through highly specialized laboratories associated with a teaching hospital.
  6. Personnel Development: Participate in Personnel Development Plans and Appraisals, ensuring continuous growth and improvement.
Communication and Relationships:
  1. Sample Assessment: Assess the suitability and appropriateness of samples received, liaising with medical staff as necessary.
  2. Colleague Liaison: Deal sympathetically with colleagues, other healthcare professionals, and staff from external organizations.
  3. Communication: Use empathy and understanding to ensure that technical, clinical, and linguistic barriers to understanding are overcome.
  4. Negotiation: Negotiate with service users, resolving contentious issues that conflict with laboratory service targets.
  5. Result Explanation: Report and explain results to clinicians, biochemists, and other service users.
  6. Specialist Advice: Provide specialist advice to clinicians and other service users regarding specimen types, investigations required, and appropriateness of test and timing of collection of specimen and turnaround times.
Scientific and Technical:
  1. Specialist Knowledge: Use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, authorizing test results, integrating, and initiating further tests as appropriate.
  2. Colleague Support: Take responsibility for finishing, checking, validating, and authorizing colleagues' work as necessary.
  3. Quality Control: Check validity and reliability of analytical processes, maintaining and monitoring satisfactory performance by internal quality control and external quality assessment to ensure accuracy and precision of POCT equipment.
  4. Material Handling: Manipulate materials and objects, such as microscopes and pipettes, for accurate and reliable determination of results.
  5. Quality Monitoring: Monitor Quality control and reagent logs in ward areas and utilize resources cost-effectively.
  6. Flexible Working: Participate in flexible working when the service demands, i.e., to accommodate early morning or late evening staff training sessions.
Resources:
  1. Data Integrity: Ensure data integrity when entering demographics and results into the laboratory information system using specialized laboratory software.
  2. IT Support: Liaise with IT support in resolving any computer system difficulties.
  3. Consumable Management: Monitor and store consumables and reagents in appropriate conditions. Audit fridge/freezer temperature in POCT areas.


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