Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Haematology in Liverpool

To assess the suitability and appropriateness of samples received, liaising with medical staff as appropriate.

To ensure satisfactory completion and validation of routine and specialist haematology & transfusion analyses.

To use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, authorise test results and initiate further tests as appropriate, e.g., Paul Bunnell, haemaglobinopathy investigation, haematinics.

To ensure data integrity when entering demographics and results into the laboratory information system.

Use acquired skills and experience for film reporting, malaria diagnosis and selection of films for referral to Haematologist.

To take responsibility for finishing, checking, validating, and authorising colleagues' work as necessary.

To check the validity and reliability of analytical processes, maintaining and monitoring satisfactory performance by internal quality control and external quality assessment.

To ensure prompt referral of results, which exceed action limits, to senior or department medical staff, wards, and GPs, performing technical interpretation of partial, complex, or conflicting results to facilitate patient care.

To set up and check instrumentation for correct operation, troubleshooting and correcting minor faults, reporting major faults to senior staff or instrument engineers as appropriate.

Maintain instrument, QC and reagent logs, and utilise resources cost effectively.

To monitor and store consumables and reagents.

To assume enhanced responsibility in the absence of supervisory and other staff as necessitated by regular rota commitments.

To take responsibility for selection of correct blood, and blood products, involving antibody identification and patient phenotyping, to make best use of stocks, and to ensure the integrity of all blood and blood products for patient transfusion, using acquired knowledge of laboratory procedures and National Blood Transfusion guidelines.

To participate in developmental work, performing specialised tests when necessary, and assisting in any clinical trials.

To work independently at large, offsite, outpatient clinics providing POCT at a satellite laboratory requiring data entry, processing and generation of treatment reports.

When required to visit wards, or clinics to perform Bleeding Times on patients.

To participate in the trusts annual joint review process, relevant to grade.

To provide a rapid, reliable and efficient results service by performing a comprehensive range of routine and specialist haematology & transfusion analyses, or referral to other providers as needed.