Specialist Senior Biomedical Scientist - Microbiology

Job description

Job responsibilities

Senior Biomedical Scientist - Microbiology | Band 7 equivalent depending on experience | Manchester| Full Time

Spire Manchester is looking for a highly motivated experienced Specialist Biomedical Scientist with at least 5 years' experience, post registration, qualified with an MSc or specialist portfolio, to join our dynamic team.

This is an opportunity for you to further develop your skills within microbiology and contribute to all areas including manual, virology and molecular in a small but busy department.

Experience with Beckman microscan, Bruker Maldi-tof, BD Max will be highly regarded.

Spire Manchester Hospital is a brand new, £65m state-of-the-art healthcare facility offering you the opportunity to work across a wide variety of specialisms. You will be able to develop your clinical skills in a modern and progressive environment. The Manchester team currently consists of over 500 colleagues, and we are rapidly expanding as we increase the scope of services we provide across our experienced and dynamic team.

Duties and responsibilities

As a Biomedical Scientist in Microbiology your role is to assist in the organisation, management, and development of services within a specialised area of the pathology service, or across a range of services provided by the laboratory. You will liaise with the Laboratory Consultant and the Pathology Manager, to ensure the provision of the high-quality service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Other duties will include, but not be limited to:

We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue.

From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Sarah Whittaker on 07525887973 or e-mail

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You must be a HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist with no restrictions on practice.
• Excellent communication skills

Experience

• You must be a HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist with no restrictions on practice.
• Excellent communication skills

• Experience with Beckman microscan, Bruker Maldi-tof, BD Max will be highly regarded

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Spire Healthcare Ltd

Address

170 Barlow Moor Rd

Manchester

M20 2AF

https://www.spirehealthcare.com/