Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Royal Brompton Hospital has a formidable international reputation for its treatment of lung and heart disease, built over more than 175 years. It has ranked in the top ten 'World's Best Specialized Hospitals' ever since Newsweek created the list in 2021. It is home to Europe's largest centre for the treatment and management of cystic fibrosis and sees patients suffering from asthma and chronic lung conditions.

Harefield Hospital, based in Uxbridge, Northwest London, the hospital is one of the largest and most experienced centres in the world for heart and lung transplants. It has jointly pioneered work in the development of ‘artificial hearts’ (also known as left ventricular assist devices or LVADs).

•            To provide and receive highly complex information to inform work colleagues or external contacts, other departments, GPs and visitors to the department. This may include providing advice, explanation of results and instruction.

•            To attend the departmental Quality Assessment meetings and actively participate in the monitoring, assessment, and improvement of the quality of the laboratory’s performance.

•            To communicate any difficulties, problems, accidents or incidents affecting the delivery of the service or the department to a section leader/line manager promptly.

•            To ensure that the laboratory Standard Operating Procedures and Health & Safety policies are understood and carried out by all staff.

•            To ensure that all contact with patients, staff from other Hospital departments and visitors to the Department is courteous, helpful, and professional.

•            To plan and prioritise your scientific workload on a day-to-day basis.

•            Provide a high level of support in the provision of service on the Harefield site by

o            Working on that site when required to do so

o            Undertaking any Histology for that site including selection of tissue for frozen sections under direction of the remote pathologist

o            Training other BMS’ to carry out any urgent work on that site including use of the Aperio slide scanning system and selection of tissue for frozen sections.

o            Ensure the Quality Management system for that site is maintained.

•            To participate fully in the Department’s quality assurance and audit programmes and assist in maintaining appropriate internal and external quality assurance records.

•            To assist with the review and updating of departmental documents (e.g. SOPs and risk assessments) for all aspects of the activity of the department.

•            To assist and participate in the research activities of the department.

•            To participate in the development, assessment, and introduction of new techniques, working practices and equipment.

•            To cover for staff shortages as far as is reasonable, in order to maintain the service.

•            To participate in the training, teaching and supervision of non or newly-HPC-registered staff such as Trainee Biomedical Scientists and biomedical support workers.

•            To participate and help in facilitating the research activities of the department.

•            To participate in an out of hours on-call service after appropriate training.

At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners. A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London. For now, the job you are applying for will be based at one of our hospital sites however, from 1 April 2024 our people and services will start to move to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests.

Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.