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Clinical Transplantation Lab
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
259-7403211ESEL
Employer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal London
Town
London
Salary
£33,094 - £36,195 per annum inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Barts Health NHS Trust logo

Medical Technical Officer

Band 4

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

The Clinical Transplantation Laboratory provides a comprehensive service for local and national referral centres in support of kidney, cardiothoracic and some of the largest stem cell transplant programmes in the UK, including for the paediatric programmes at GOSH. We perform the full range of H&I services, including HLA-typing, crossmatching and antibody screening services and other immunogenetic testing as an aid to disease diagnosis.   

Applicants should have GCSE passes in English and Maths or equivalent, at least one science subject A level or equivalent (BSc in a biological science is desirable) and must have evidence of continuous professional development. Experience of working in Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics is desirable.  The department provides training opportunities including participation in the BSHI Certificate of Competence training scheme.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to efficiently and methodically perform diagnostic tests related to Transplantation such as NGS  and flow crossmatching. The post holder will maintain paper and electronic records of all such diagnostics tests carried out.  The post holder will assist in the day-to-day activities of the laboratory and provide training to staff as required. The post holder will assist in the development and validation of kits, reagents and equipment.   

Working for our organisation

The NHS East and South East London Pathology Partnership is an arms-length organisation providing pathology services to Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.  The Pathology Partnership is hosted by Barts Health. 

The Pathology Partnership was formed in May 2021.  Between 2021 and 2024 the Partnership undertook a complex transformation programme to establish a single network of laboratories, underpinned by a single Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and single Quality Management System (QMS). 

The Partnership has a main hub laboratory at the Royal London Hospital and Essential Service Laboratories (ESL) as a minimum at the six other hospital sites served by the Partnership.  
The Partnership has three operational divisions: 
-Blood Sciences including Haematology, Blood Transfusion and Biochemistry 
-Microbiology and Virology 
-Cellular Pathology and Cancer Diagnostics 

The 2024/25 total operating costs across the Partnership were c. £121m per annum with a workforce establishment of circa. 860 WTE. 
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment. 

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within the Pathology Partnership and Barts Health at this band 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For enquiries or to arrange a visit please contact the Laboratory directly Katy Derbyshire [email protected]

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachments below.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date, once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE passes in English and Maths or equivalent
  • At least one science subject A level or equivalent
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
  • BSc in a biological science

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a busy, Pathology Laboratory environment gained over at least a 1 year period, covering routine and urgent tests
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in HLA routine and non-routine serological techniques including Luminex antibody screening and identification, CDC screening, CDC crossmatching and flowcytometric crossmatching
  • Experience in HLA routine and non-routine molecular techniques, including HLA typing by NGS, PCR-SSP, Luminex and Sanger sequencing
  • Experience of validation of kits, reagents and/or equipment

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Must have intermediate theoretical knowledge of molecular genetics or immunology

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed practical laboratory skills and manual dexterity in order to carry out routine laboratory tests with speed and accuracy
  • Ability to follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Must be able to implement agreed policies in own area of work
  • Must be able to apply some judgement to the interpretation of a range of results, including Luminex antibody, HLA type, CDC crossmatch and Flow crossmatch, with some analysis of the complex data
  • Will be required to take overall responsibility for a specific laboratory activity, such as regular maintenance of equipment, departmental H&S or control of laboratory reagent and consumables stock
  • Must also be able to implement quality improvement changes to own work area
  • Basic computing skills (Microsoft Office)

Personal and people development • Ability to work as part of a team • Participation in appropriate CPD scheme

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Participation in appropriate CPD scheme

Communications

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills with staff at all levels including other members of the interdisciplinary transplant teams
  • Will need to provide and receive routine test data (e.g. crossmatch results that influence whether or not a transplant goes ahead) orally (in person and over the phone), in writing and in electronic form

Specific requirements

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to plan and organise several on-going complex activities to obtain a crossmatch result, forming plans and adjusting those plans to the unique situation for each unique crossmatch
  • Will need to enter complex data (e.g. crossmatch results) into computer systems
  • Able to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Green@Barts HealthNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Pregnancy Loss PledgeDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

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.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katy Derbyshire
Job title
Dep Head of Clinical Transplantation Lab
Email address
[email protected]
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