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Salary Do you have a background in biochemistry and are you looking for your next career step or a role in a brand new state of the art lab?
Do you want to join a team that understands work life balance is important to a happy successful department?
Do you want to be involved in an exciting opportunity to restructure and re-provision our hospital laboratories and participate in a network transformation project as part of the NHSE/I reconfiguration?
If so, we would love to hear from you. This is a particularly exciting time to join us as we are building a new blood sciences team operational management team - supported by very experienced staff and colleagues who will help the new members of the team settle in.
We are happy to discuss any working arrangements you might prefer and once we've recruited, retention is our focus. We have access to training and development funding and will support you in your career.
You will have a strong biochemistry background and have or looking to develop managerial and professional responsibilities in a progressive and forward-thinking department, working with a friendly and collaborative team within blood sciences. You will also have experience of managed service contracts and change management, to provide operational leadership for the department going forwards. The successful candidate will be instrumental in developing quality improvement and innovation initiatives for the automated laboratories.
The successful candidate will assume operational responsibility for our UKAS accredited Biochemistry laboratories, located in Winchester at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) and at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) and will be responsible for Biochemistry Quality Management as well as Specimen Reception. The Successful candidate will be required to participate in the 24/7 out of hours Operational manager on-call rota and travel between Trust sites as required. You will be required to maintain your biochemistry competencies to provide shift cover in an emergency.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust
For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
