Job summary
- Main area
- Pathology
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Core hours and some late shifts until 8pm)
- Job ref
- 205-7186675
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Macclesfield Hospital
- Town
- Macclesfield
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Biochemistry Associate Practitioner
Band 4
Job overview
The University Hospital of North Midlands, Mid Cheshire and East Cheshire NHS Trusts are working collaboratively to form a Pathology network in line with a NHSI directive.
Biochemistry Associate Practitioner
Band 4
Macclesfield Hospital
Permanent
Main duties of the job
The post will be based at Macclesfield Hospital.
To provide technical support to the Biomedical Scientists in Biochemistry, performing pre and post analytical tasks. Help with the analysis of pathological samples using various techniques and to present the results for validation and authorisation.
Previous experience of working in an NHS laboratory is required.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Experience and/or qualifications in NHS Laboratory
- Knowledge and experience of healthcare science duties to NVQ level 3 (2 A levels) plus additional theoretical or applied
Desirable criteria
- Training to Foundation Degree Level
- IBMS Certificate of Achievement Part II
Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- Experience of training staff in own work area
- Excellent keyboard skills and attention to detail.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- Good manual dexterity skills
- Understanding the importance of confidentiality and data quality
- Prepared to work flexibly, including participation in a shift pattern which includes early, late, weekend, and Bank Holiday shifts and other out of hours rotas as required.
- Ability and willingness to fulfil the travel requirements of the post if relevant - primary place of work as per JD but on rare occasion may reasonably be asked to work at another site where the Trust has responsibility for Pathology services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jess Clee
- Job title
- Lead Biomedical Scientist for Biochemistry and CSR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01625 661833
- Additional information
Senior Biomedical Scientist 01625 661828
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