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Job Description
Working hours are Monday Friday 9am5pm.
This role is designed for a HCPCregistered Biomedical or Clinical Scientist to manage the daytoday service and the laboratory team in the Clinical Genetics department. Preregistration Clinical Scientists will also be considered.
- To manage the daytoday service of the laboratory ensuring that all turn around times are met.
- To supervise and manage junior staff in the department to provide a highquality clinical service.
- To support the training of other members of staff and promote Continuous Professional Development (CPD) within the department.
- Provide approved departmental information and advice to other healthcare professionals and to refer on to appropriate specialists requests for information outside their area of responsibility.
- To perform a range of specialist technical and scientific activities.
- To oversee (and to perform where required) the processing of the specimens received and to undertake the related tasks in the various sections of the laboratory leading to the reporting and interpretation of results.
- To interpret first line laboratory results and take appropriate actions in line with laboratory policies and procedures. e.g. authorisation of results ordering relevant followup laboratory procedures adding technical and approved predefined clinically relevant comments referring results for clinical interpretation or opinion informing the requestor of clinically significant result.
- To liaise with the laboratory director medical and scientific staff in all matters relating to screening and diagnosis.
- Maintain the quality assurance procedures of the department ensuring work towards UKAS ISO: 15189 standards.
- Measure and monitor the accuracy and imprecision of laboratory investigations using appropriate quality control procedures.
- To ensure section has sufficient equipment and consumables.
- To ensure that complex equipment within the section is maintained to agreed schedules and fix problems as requires. Liaise with external technical representatives as required.
Qualifications :
- BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science genetics or equivalent.
- UK State Registration (HCPC). Biomedical science or Clinical Scientist. Preregistration Clinical scientist will be considered.
- Able to present and discuss scientific data with senior management
- Ability to prioritise and manage staff and resources on a daytoday basis.
- Ability to make judgements in liaison with senior managers on complex scientific matters.
- Proven experience of line managing a team including supporting encouraging and coaching.
- Proven experience in change management within ISO 15189 accreditation standards.
- Able to present and discuss key metric data to senior managers as and when required.
- Skills in using LIMS and middleware in relation to requesting reporting and setting up new tests.
- Extensive working knowledge of laboratory areas including both practical and theoretical knowledge of the methods
- Able to undertake technical validation of results
- Ability to communicate technical information
- Numerate and able to undertake scientific calculations
- Computer literate
- Strong eye for accuracy and attention to detail
- Good communication skills both written and verbal
Additional Information :
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
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Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100 of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
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