Job vacancy: Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist, Synnovis, London

Job summary

Main area: Blood Sciences
Grade: Synnovis Pay Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: J206-VIS7185-A

Employer: Synnovis
Employer type: Private Sector
Site: Friars Bridge Court
Town: London
Salary: £56,276 to £63,176 per annum depending on experience
Closing: 27/08/2025 23:59

Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Synnovis Pay Band 7

The place to work in pathology

We are looking for top talent to join the UK’s leading and fastest growing pathology company – a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose.

Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners.

A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London.

From 1 April 2024 our people and services have moved to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests.

You will hold a variety of accountabilities in the laboratory environment. These include, but are not limited to:

In conjunction with the Quality team, monitor, report and action errors, hazards, and incidents logged in the CAPA module of Q-Pulse. This may include taking part in investigations of incidents and providing expert insight into making improvements based on outcomes.
Participate in appropriate clinical audits as required and directed.
Ensure compliance with all regulatory and quality requirements of regulatory directives, accreditation bodies, and local management including:
- Care Quality Commission
- UKAS
- Synnovis policies and SOPs
- Any other body in area of responsibility.
Encourage junior employees in their scientific expertise, knowledge and professional development, including the safe use of highly complex and sensitive equipment.
Develop, prepare, write, and review relevant documents, including SOPs, COSHH and risk assessments in line with the ISO 15189 standard.
Demonstrate ongoing laboratory-based competency against training plans.

For further details please see the attached JD.

Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London.

The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services.

The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

BSc (Hons) IBMS accredited degree or equivalent
HCPC State registration as a Biomedical Scientist
Specialist portfolio in relevant discipline or equivalent experience (if HCPC Registration via IBMS Portfolio route) or FIBMS, MSc, FIBMS or equivalent experience in a similar role
Evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

Desirable criteria

Quality or Management qualification
Willing to work towards higher levels of professional practice
IBMS membership

Experience

Essential criteria

Leadership qualities with experience of coaching, coordinating and managing a team
Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota and shift management
Experience of supervising junior employees
Experience in and ability to supervise analysis, interpretation and technical validation of routine, complex and specialist results
Experience in the education of physiology, pathology, and scientific principles relevant to specialism
Lead in area of special interest and expertise in one or more areas of the laboratory, for example Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT

Desirable criteria

Cultivating junior colleagues with skills in areas of interest or expertise such as Quality, Health & Safety, Training or IT
Cultivating Specialist BMS with skills in research, clinical or analytical areas
Acting as owner for escalation and communication to internal and external service users in the event of quality/ analyser/assay failures
Line management experience

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Competent in the interpretation and technical validation of results
Manage the resolution of troubleshooting activity for highly technical and precision equipment and assays
Ability to troubleshoot and train those who use the Laboratory Information Management Systems
Ability to manage effectively in a changing dynamic environment with multiple conflicting priorities
Knowledge of effective line management techniques including all aspects of people management, for example recruitment and rota management
Knowledge of the correct policies and procedures to implement in relation to quality systems, with reference to ISO/UKAS

Desirable criteria

Good awareness of current issues within pathology locally and nationally

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. All applicants are welcome to apply regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, religion, or sexual orientation. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

Our Bank workers enjoy competitive market rates and flexible contract assignments across all of our sites, dependent on your availability and location.

For our Permanent workforce we offer a competitive benefits package.

All employees are entitled to:

Contributory pension scheme
Generous annual leave entitlement
Ground breaking development
opportunities

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Please apply for this post on-line. If you have problems with using the online process, or need any assistance, please email [email protected]

Your e-mail address is important to us. We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

If you decide to apply for this post but do not hear back from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed on this occasion.

Thank you for your interest in Synnovis.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

Job Description (PDF, 456.4KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Azzaya Munkhtsetseg
Job title: Operations Manager
Email address: [email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Synnovis
Open Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm
Telephone: 01629 702338

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Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Synnovis Pay Band 7

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

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