There is an opportunity for an experienced BMS to join our Transfusion Team. This post is based across the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital , Haywards Heath.

Brighton is a Level 1 Trauma Centre and has obstetric, neonatal, renal, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular, paediatrics, neurosurgery and other services. We are also linked to the Medical School at Brighton.

Princess Royal has urology, orthopaedics, obstetrics, emergency services and other services including remote services at a burns and plastics site.

This post would include rotation across both sites giving the candidate two different hospitals and a wide range of specialities.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the day to day running of the Blood Transfusion department, ensuring UKAS and MHRA standards, staff training and general leadership duties as directed by the Lead BMS.

Supervising Biomedical Scientists, trainees and MLAs, including training of junior staff completing their Registration & Specialist Portfolios.

To practice as a Senior Specialist HCPC Registered BMS to provide a high-quality service.

The individual will be expected to apply professional judgement and utilise specialist skills and detailed scientific knowledge to provide a high quality and timely result service.

The successful candidates must be HCPC registered and has obtained a MSc Biomedical Sciences Degree or relevant experience at Band 6 as well as demonstrating a high level of knowledge and commitment aimed at maintaining and developing a quality service in their specialisation.

The laboratory has full training status with the HCPC and IBMS.The department offers support and encouragement of your CPD and the opportunity to attend approved external courses when available.

The Laboratory is currently UKAS accredited to ISO 15189 standards.

Excellent communication and organisational skills.Excellent written and spoken EnglishExperience of the above mentioned analysers would be an advantageAble to plan and priorities own workload.IT Literate with experience of LIMS systems .

About us

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communicate information and issues within the teams to ensure the continual and efficient running of the Department.

Actively participate in team meetings and departmental Huddles.

Act as liaison between the laboratory and other users of the service and deal with enquiries from users, patients and other members of staff in a polite and helpful manner, seeking specialist scientific advice where required.

Provide information to patients and other users of the service according to current standard operational procedures.

Empathetically resolve complaints received from patients and users in a kind and compassionate manner seeking appropriate guidance from senior management when required.

Liaise with the specialism team across the Trust to ensure that working practices are consistent.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Band 6 BMS without MSC will be considered if relevant laboratory experience

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Use of LIMS/Order Comms
• Evidence of training other staff
• Extensivce Knowledge and experience of the Ante-natal Screening programme

Staff management

Essential

• Use of rostering system

Desirable

• IPR training
• Staff management and capability

Quality

Essential

• Use of QPulse
• SOPs written
• Evidence of UKAS
• Evidence of an interest in Quality

Education

Essential

• HCPC Registratio
• NHS Experience

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD
• Management Qualification
• Understanding of UKAS accreditation
• FIBMS or Relevant Msc or relevant experience

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Royal Sussex County & Princess Royal Hospital

Eastern Road

Brighton/Haywards Heath

BN2 5BE

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