Senior Clinical Scientist, Biochemistry in Nuneaton

To provide data on quality performance, activity etc. to consultant laboratory staff, the Clinical Service Lead (and Group Manager as required).

To safely handle, on a daily basis, use and dispose of biological samples such as blood, urine, faeces, other body tissue and hazardous chemicals.

Working with biomedical scientists to ensure adherence to accreditation standards and contribute to the regular updating of accreditation documentation.

Implement policy and service development in the department, and propose changes that will impact within the department, and on patient care and services outside the department.

Ensure that quality assurance procedures are carried out and review performance.

Undertake clinical validation and authorisation of laboratory reports, assessing the feasibility and clinical significance of results, ranging from those of routine individual tests to highly complex patterns of abnormal and changing results.

To apply clinical and interpretive comments to laboratory reports as appropriate, and verbally communicate urgent, abnormal and life-threatening results to medical, nursing, other clinical staff and laboratory staff in other Trusts/hospitals where necessary.

To provide written interpretative reports of specialist laboratory investigations.

To be competent in the performance of highly specialised and complex manual laboratory procedures, requiring a high level of skill.

To perform specialised complex analytical investigations, and also occasionally routine analytical investigations, for example in the absence of staff such as biomedical scientists who would normally perform such investigations.

In conjunction with the Clinical Service Lead and Laboratory Manager ensure that breaches of Trust and National guidelines are reported via the Trust Incident Reporting systems.

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we will ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

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.