Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Colchester, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
Want to take the next step in your career within Haematology and Blood Transfusion? Have you completed or on your way to completing your specialist portfolio? Then we have the opportunity for you You will join a friendly, busy department who have a close working relationship with our clinical consultant staff. We are MHRA compliant and are waiting UKAS accreditation notification. We have unsociable hours and a locally agreed fixed payment for night shifts.An enhanced relocation package may be available. Our vision is to deliver innovations, high-performing pathology services that is focussed on our customers and delivers high quality and fully compliant services. We are clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be achieved by working together to meet our service users needs and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best pathology staff. We encourage our staff to undertake internal and external courses to aid their development. You will play an integral part in helping to train our junior staff to develop their skills and careers. We have a well-designed, up-to-date lab with Grifols analysers in blood transfusion, blood track and Contronics temperature monitoring system. In haematology and coagulation we have Sysmex XNs and ACL TOPS. For quality management we use Q-Pulse system. We are also in the process of upgrading our existing LIMS system (winpath enterprise). About our Pathology Service Specialist Biomedical Scientist Job Information You will enjoy a varied range of responsibilities from maintaining the quality management system and UKAS accreditation, training of less experienced members of staff, validating and authorising results and most importantly providing quality service for our patients. You will be expected to resolve complex equipment or process problems and perform manual, semi-automated and fully automated laboratory investigations, including specialist investigations, within defined service area accurately and efficiently. You will participate in the day to day management of stock control and usage. This may include maintaining Blood Transfusion and Haematology stock levels and records and monitor usage to ensure efficient use where appropriate. One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities. Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients. If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you. Find out about living and working with us - For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description. This advert closes on Sunday 10 Mar 2024Job tags
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