Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MSc Degree in Clinical Biochemistry
2. Registration as a clinical scientist with Health Care Professions Council
3. FRCPath Part 1 or evidence of working towards the Fellowship examination of the Royal College of Pathologists
Desirable criteria
4. Relevant PhD
Experience
Essential criteria
5. Minimum 4 years post graduate laboratory experience
6. Experience of planning and carrying out audits
Desirable criteria
7. Evidence of experience in providing comprehensive professional advice relating to Clinical Biochemistry, such as NICE, Health Technology Assessments and Recommendations from Royal Colleges and Professional Associations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
8. Extensive specific Clinical Biochemistry and general scientific knowledge, training, experience or expertise to Doctorate level or equivalent
9. Evidence of expert knowledge in one or more specialist analytical and clinical areas
10. Knowledge of the principles of protein electrophoresis
Desirable criteria
11. Evidence of involvement of development of laboratory services
Skills
Essential criteria
12. To have developed analytical (technical) skills in general and specialised areas
13. Able to undertake supervised laboratory medicine research
14. Able to advise medical and nursing staff on investigations and interpretations of biochemical and metabolic processes (where necessary with back up from more senior staff)
15. Able to recognise patterns of abnormality and relate them to clinical situations and assess differential diagnoses