Biomedical Scientist Specialist Haematology

1 day ago


Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist at Liverpool Clinical Laboratories in Haematology/Transfusion. This service is provided across four separate hospital sites.

Main Duties
  • To assess the suitability and appropriateness of samples received, liaising with medical staff as appropriate.
  • To ensure satisfactory completion and validation of routine and specialist haematology & transfusion analyses.
  • To use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, authorise test results and initiate further tests as appropriate.
  • To ensure data integrity when entering demographics and results into the laboratory information system.
  • To take responsibility for finishing, checking, validating, and authorising colleagues' work as necessary.
  • To check the validity and reliability of analytical processes, maintaining and monitoring satisfactory performance by internal quality control and external quality assessment.
  • To ensure prompt referral of results, which exceed action limits, to senior or department medical staff, wards, and GPs, performing technical interpretation of partial, complex, or conflicting results to facilitate patient care.
  • To set up and check instrumentation for correct operation, troubleshooting and correcting minor faults, reporting major faults to senior staff or instrument engineers as appropriate.
  • To monitor and store consumables and reagents.
  • To assume enhanced responsibility in the absence of supervisory and other staff as necessitated by regular rota commitments.
  • To take responsibility for selection of correct blood, and blood products, involving antibody identification and patient phenotyping, to make best use of stocks, and to ensure the integrity of all blood and blood products for patient transfusion, using acquired knowledge of laboratory procedures and National Blood Transfusion guidelines.
  • To participate in developmental work, performing specialised tests when necessary, and assisting in any clinical trials.
  • To work independently at large, offsite, outpatient clinics providing POCT at a satellite laboratory requiring data entry, processing and generation of treatment reports. When required to visit wards, or clinics to perform Bleeding Times on patients.
  • To participate in the trusts annual joint review process, relevant to grade.
  • To provide a rapid, reliable and efficient results service by performing a comprehensive range of routine and specialist haematology & transfusion analyses, or referral to other providers as needed.
  • To work within the accepted rules and procedures of both the Trust and the department.
  • To apply specialised knowledge and skills in key areas where necessary.
  • To offer guidance on the services available from the speciality, information about the analyses performed, and to refer medical queries to Haematologist for clinical advice.
  • To communicate with clinical and haematology staff to resolve critical patient concerns.
  • To assist in the supervision and instruction of trainee and less experienced Biomedical Scientists, laboratory assistants and support staff.
  • To continually improve service provision, undertaking developmental work as required.
About Us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.



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