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(A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and East Surrey Hospital)

We are looking for a full-time, energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated Senior BMS with appropriate qualifications and relevant experience to join the leadership team of the Infection & Immunity Sciences (I&IS) at Wexham Park Hospital  Microbiology departments for Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS).

Successful candidate must be adaptable, able to multi-task between workload management and supporting the BMS team on the bench and take responsibility for training within the department as a training officer. 

Applications are invited from HCPC registered Biomedical Scientists who have completed their Specialist portfolio training and has extensive experience in a specialised Microbiology laboratory setting.

You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shifts  and will be required to work  between the Hub sites to maintain training and service requirements as required. 

You will work in rotation with other senior members of staff to manage sections of the laboratory within our team. You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills. You will be expected to participate in the band 7 rota, covering  mandatory weekends, public/bank holidays and mandatory on call duties.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Responsible for the day to day organisation of the laboratory, managing staff and resources to provide a high quality, efficient and cost effective specialist diagnostic microbiology service.

To perform the diagnostic microbiology examination and reporting of specimens received in order to aid patient treatment and care. To use interpretive skills on culture plates and complex analysers combined with the Laboratory Information Management System in order to deliver the diagnostic microbiology service to our users.

To provide teaching and training for more junior members of staff.

To have responsibility for Training , Workload Management,  service improvement or bench/section training. 

To validate and verify new equipment and methods in the laboratory conforming to UKAS standards.

The diagnostic work of the department includes processing, for example, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, faeces, sputum, tissues and diverse secretions. Processed samples are then interpreted for the presence of pathogens; these could be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

 We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties