A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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 Clinical Chemistry team in this UKAS and HCPC accredited laboratory.
Applicants for the newly qualified band 5 post will be expected to successfully complete a Specialist IBMS Clinical Chemistry portfolio within an agreed timescale for progression to band 6, under annex 20 AFC terms and conditions.
The post will be based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital but the post holder will be rotated to other sites within the Trust including North Tyneside, as part of the departments' shift system.
Annex 20 applies: 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.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The post holder will act as a qualified Biomedical Scientist band 5 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.
Band 5 Essential Criteria:
BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences
Health Professions Council State Registered Biomedical Scientist
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 centres. 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.
The post holder will act as a qualified Specialist Biomedical Scientist (BMS1) in Clinical Chemistry working within a section of the department and will rotate through all sections and sites of the laboratory each year. 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.
In Clinical Chemistry the job holder is responsible for supporting the diagnosis and monitoring of pathological processes by the application of Clinical Chemistry technology, utilising the most up to date automated analysers and manual techniques.
In the special sections of the laboratory, which includes spectrometry at the Northumbria site, and Protein screening at North Tyneside Hospital, they are responsible for analysing samples using complex and advanced techniques
The post holder will assist the Senior Biomedical Scientist (Team Manager) to ensure that a high quality Clinical Chemistry Service is provided and will be required to undertake duties on all three sites within the Trust as required.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Nov 2025