Employer: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Location:
Lancashire
Salary: £22,128 to £28,746 pa
Type: Permanent
Expires: 30 Jan 2018
At East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 7,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
The department welcomes applications from newly qualified and experienced Biomedical Scientists.The post is band 5 for newly qualified staff, progressing to band 6 on completion of specialist portfolio. Ideally the candidate will have experience of working within a Haematology/Transfusion laboratory, but this is not essential.
The position is full-time, with shift working, based on a 10 week shift pattern. Out of hours pay is at AfC rates.
The Haematology/Transfusion Department at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the Blood Sciences laboratory and operates on two sites; these are at the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital. The post will be based at the Royal Blackburn but staff are required to work across both sites.
The main site is the Royal Blackburn Hospital, which is equipped with 4 Advia 2120 analysers and 2 IL TOPS 550s. Transfusion is provided by Ortho Visions. Additionally the department has TOSOH G8 for Haemoglobinopathy Screening.
The laboratory at Burnley has mirrored equipment
The department is UKAS accredited.
General Duties / Duties will include:
Processing of samples, use and maintenance of equipment, general housekeeping. The candidate will be required to complete all departmental training competency assessments and contribute to the effective working of the department.
Type of candidate.
Meticulous, hardworking, reliable, flexible and work well within a team.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we may use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to creating a well managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment and selection process is accessible to all. Flexible Working applications will be considered. The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact a member of Recruitment Services on 01254 732075 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Contact: Lee Carter
Email: [email protected]
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