Specialist Biomedical Scientist/Trainee

1 day ago

Dundee, Dundee City, United Kingdom NHS Tayside Full time

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

With effect from 01 April 2026, NHS Scotland is reducing its full time working week from 37 to 36 hours per week, there will be no change in full time pay.
We are looking for an individual to work within this busy but friendly department. You will be expected to rotate through the different sections of the department, which will require multi-tasking skills and the ability to retain a variety different processes and knowledge to cope with the diversity of the tasks required. This will follow extensive training and completion of competence based assessments. You will have the opportunity to work in routine Histopathology sections associated with the specimen pathway through the department.

We are a progressive, expanding teaching hospital department with an annual workload of approx 47,000 surgical pathology specimen and 2,000 diagnostic cytology cases. The base is at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

This challenging post will require applications from individuals holding an
IBMS Accredited Honours Degree in Biomedical Science, be HCPC registered as a Biomedical Scientist, and have an IBMS post-registration Specialist Diploma in Cellular Pathology or equivalent
. The Pathology Department are committed to Continued Professional Development.

Consideration will also be given to applicants with the following

  • Those with an IBMS Accredited BSc(Hons) in Biomedical Science and who are registered with the HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist but have not yet completed the IBMS specialist Diploma in Cellular Pathology. This post will subsequently be considered as a training post (Band 6 Annex 21 paragraph 2 (ii)

On appointment
the post holder
must
achieve the IBMS Specialist Diploma in Cellular Pathology within 2 years

  • Those with an IBMS Accredited BSc(Hons) in Biomedical Science who have not yet completed the IBMS Registration Portfolio.

This post will subsequently be considered as training post (Band 6 Annex 21 paragraph 2 (ii)
On appointment the post holder
must
complete the IBMS Registration Portfolio to gain the certificate of competence and become registered with the HCPC as Biomedical Scientist within 1 year. Following this, they
must
then achieve the IBMS Specialist Diploma in Cellular Pathology within 2 years thereafter.
The Department is a UKAS accredited medical laboratory No. 8682, and has IBMS Training Approval Status for pre and post registration training.

Informal enquiries/visits welcome please contact Mr Andy Munro, Clinical Laboratory Manager on tel: or e-mail: , alternatively contact Ms Nicky Robson, Quality Manager on tel: or email:

Hours of work are: 37 hours per week. Monday to Friday.

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.
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