Biomedical Scientist, Haematology Department - The Priory Hospital, Birmingham
The Priory Hospital, Priory Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B5 7UG
Up to £46,500 per annum DOE
Job Title: Biomedical Scientist
Department: Haematology
Location: The Priory Hospital, Priory Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B5 7UG
Contract /Hours: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary range: Up to £46,500 per annum 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 3,500 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:
A vacancy has arisen for a full time experienced Biomedical Scientist, to work in the multidisciplinary laboratory at The Priory hospital, a background in Haematology and Blood Transfusion will be essential.
Priory Hospital is one of Birmingham’s busiest private hospitals with a fully equipped Intensive care unit and a twenty room consulting suite. The TDL pathology laboratory also provides Haematology, Biochemistry and Blood Transfusion services to ten private hospitals situated across the West Midlands area on a 24/7 basis
The role will involve working alongside other members of the laboratory team and undertaking biochemistry, haematology and blood transfusion investigations, providing a 24/7 service. The post holder will be an experienced Biomedical Scientist who can work as part of a team undertaking routine testing and specialist investigations in order to provide safe and reliable results as well as compatible blood components and products for patients who require transfusion.
The tests are carried out on blood samples unsupervised and in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and local standard operating procedures. Work will be undertaken with much autonomy but under the overall responsibility of the laboratory manager.
The successful candidate should hold an IBMS-accredited Biological Sciences degree or equivalent experience and have current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual salary review - No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days
• Flexible working hours – we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule