Biomedical Scientist (Bank), Infection Sciences - 1 Mabledon Place, London
1 Mabledon Place, London
Up to £23.60 per hour DOE
Job Title: Biomedical Scientist
Department: Microbiology
Location: 1 Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9AX
Contract /Hours: Bank Contract, 0 hours
Salary range: Up to £23.60 per hour DOE
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)
About the role:
Our aim to be one step ahead in delivering medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare has led to opportunities arising for Full-Time Biomedical Scientists in our Infection Science Department. The Infection Science Department is a national and internationally renowned service that includes both reference and developmental clinical services with expertise in all areas of conventional and molecular microbiology.
Who We Are
We combine The Doctors Laboratory’s long standing, specialist pathology expertise with the Royal Free London and UCLH’s internationally recognised heritage of continual research, development and academic excellence. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, while also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology, and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
Where You Will Work
The Halo, HSL’s flagship suite of laboratories spread over 11 floors, is home to more than 1,000 staff working within a connected suite of laboratories. The pioneering work conducted at the Halo is seamlessly linked to our group national network of hub and spoke laboratories throughout the UK.
As a clinically-led provider of world-class pathology and diagnostic services to the NHS, HSL is committed to ensuring that patients, doctors, specialists and research scientists have access to the latest technology available. And within the Halo, we have the best that science can offer, providing excellent service levels, the very best laboratory facilities for extensive research and harnessing the skills of some of the brightest minds in medicine. All working to ensure that pathology is at the heart of health, revolutionising the way we deliver an even better and more personalised standard of care.
What You Will Do
As a BMS within the department you could find yourself working on a number of cutting edge techniques in the daily running of the laboratory, this includes working in a state of the art CL3 laboratory, carrying out Rapid Diagnostic Methods, the chance to attend consultant lead seminars and case studies, and the chance to work with the extensive range of samples processed at the Halo.
The Main Duties of a BMS include but are not limited to, performing Real Time PCR assays, using the BD Phoenix system for automated identification and susceptibility testing, working on the BD KIESTRA TLA and MALDI TOF systems, operating Beckman Coulter and Copan instrumentation and analysers such as SediMax, AutionMax and EntericBio.
Other responsibilities will include querying specimens for microbiological investigations and carrying out laboratory testing according to defined protocols, to ensure that specimen and request form details are correct and discuss ambiguous test requests with senior scientists or clinicians and to answer enquiries from health care professionals at the hospital or in the community.
Within infection sciences staff are encouraged to bring forth their own ideas and suggestions for service improvement and there is a strong focus on promoting a task-orientated culture aimed at supporting confidence and staff empowerment.
The laboratory is also undertaking a number of projects to support and promote a continuous process of development and improvement. BMS staff, alongside others, are offered opportunities to partake in project work and undertake a number of training activities, both of which are intended to develop initiative and incentive throughout the department as a whole.
Who We Are Looking For
There is availability for bank BMS staff to work on weekends or night shifts within the laboratory, though other shifts may be available as well depending on demand and staffing requirements. Shifts are 09:00 – 19:00 on Saturday and Sunday and are renumerated at a competitive rate. Shifts at other times can vary, the laboratory works from 08:00 – 20:00 routinely.
Night shifts involve working from 20:00 – 08:30 (though start/end times are negotiable to some degree) and need is greater towards the end of the week and weekends. If available to work night shifts you will be required to attend day shifts initially until trained, after which transfer to nights is possible.
We are looking for people that want to make a difference, candidates with sound analytical skills, capable of assessing any situation from a variety of perspectives. Someone who is willing to take responsibility and go that bit further in order to provide the world-class pathology service we aim to maintain.
Training will be provided in the laboratory, but this will need to be on weekdays initially. The length of weekday training will vary depending on the individual and previous experience but a period of 1-2 months should be considered probable.
If you require further information about this position, please contact Alan Spratt by email alan.spratt@hslpathology.com
Vacancy ID : 034430 Closing Date : 15-Apr-2026
Contact Person : Alan Spratt Contact Email : Alan.Spratt@hslpathology.com