Main area Clinical Biochemistry Grade Band 5/6 Contract Permanent: 37.5 hours per week to include a 24 hour shift rota when suitably trained. Post will start 01.09.2026 Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Post holder will be expected to participate in a 24 hour rota service when suitably trained) Job ref 438-PB4064
Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Preston Hospital Town Preston Salary £32,073 - £48,117 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/05/2026 23:59
Biomedical Scientist - Clinical Biochemistry
Band 5/6
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Main duties of the job
We are well equipped to provide an efficient high quality diagnostic service. Our equipment comprises Roche Cobas PRO systems with pre analytics and tracking, IDS iSYS, Tosoh G11s, Waters Aquity UHPLC, Xevo TQD and Xevo TQS micro mass spectrometers, Perkin Elmer Pinnacle AA, Z480 for PCR and Radiometer Flex blood gas analysers. Staff rotate within the Clinical Biochemistry department using the latest automation for routine workflow and providing the opportunity to develop more specialist skills.
The post is full time 37.5 hours per week.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties will include, but not be limited to:
* Performs work duties to the standards required as a HCPC Biomedical Scientist
* Undertake the correct procedures for the handling of specimens, pre and post analysis.
* Maintain and operate equipment used in the preparation and analysis of specimens.
* Perform a range of laboratory tests autonomously and demonstrate an understanding of the scientific basis for tests and the disease processes under investigation.
* Demonstrate awareness of factors affecting sample integrity, risks associated with the sample reagents, or method and other tests indicated by the outcome of the analysis.
* Use the main laboratory computer system in accordance with service requirements
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in a clinical pathology laboratory as a Biomedical Scientist
* Understanding of health and safety legislation pertaining to clinical laboratories
* Understand the components of a quality management system
* Experience as a specialist in a clinical pathology laboratory (band 6)
* Understanding of laboratory quality issues
* Problem solving ability
* Familiar with Pathology LIMS
Qualification and Education
* Degree (or equivalent) suitable for HCPC registration
* HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist
* Uses continuing professional development as a means of self- development
* Completed Specialist Portfolio or equivalent (band 6)
* IBMS membership
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here
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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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