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Job summary

Main area
Microbiology
Grade
Band 5/6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Participation in the departmental 24 hour, 7 days a week shift rota, including bank holidays, is required.)
Job ref
319-6408753SC-A
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Tyneside General Hospital
Town
North Shields
Salary
pro rata per annum
Closing
16/07/2024 09:00

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Biomedical Scientist

Band 5/6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

Applications are invited from qualified, enthusiastic and well-motivated Biomedical Scientists, holding a BSc in Biomedical Science and currently registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to join our Northumbria Microbiology team in this UKAS and HCPC accredited laboratory.

Applicants for the newly qualified band 5 post will be expected to successfully complete an IBMS Specialist Microbiology diploma within an agreed timescale for progression to Band 6, under annex 20 AFC terms and conditions.

The post will be based at the North Tyneside General Hospital but the post holder may be rotated to other sites within the Trust including Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, as part of the departments' shift system.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as a qualified Biomedical Scientist in Microbiology working within a section of the department and will rotate through all sections of the laboratory. The post holder will ensure that high quality patient results are produced in an efficient and cost-effective way in all sections in which they are working.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centre's. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will act as a qualified Specialist Biomedical Scientist  in the Microbiology Department, working within a section of the laboratory and will rotate through all sections of the laboratory regularly, including Serology, Mycology, Parasitology and Molecular as well as bacteriology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

The post holder will ensure that high quality patient results are produced in an efficient and cost-effective way in all sections in which they are
working.

They will also:

  • Process specialist investigations in the department of microbiology.
  • To provide specialist advice to clinicians and service users as to appropriateness of tests and timescales of results.
  • To provide specialist services such as training or problem solving for specialist equipment.
  • To act as a mentor for more junior scientific and support staff.

The laboratory has a number of automated and diagnostic systems, which includes, WASP, Vitek XL, Vitek MS, BacTec, Panther, GeneXpert, BioFire TORCH, VIDAS, Cobas, DS2 and Liaison.

The post holder will assist the Team Managers  to ensure that a high quality Microbiology Service is provided.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • An accredited BSc honours degree in Biomedical Sciences
  • Must be State Registered as a Biomedical Scientist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of Continual Professional Development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jane Haswell
Job title
Service Manager Microbiology
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01912934172
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