Senior Biomedical Scientist/Quality Manager

Location: 1 Mabledon Place, W1CH 9AX

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, well-motivated, organised BMS with appropriate qualifications and/or relevant experience to join the senior team of the Blood Sciences department as a Senior BMS Quality Manager.

Within the Department of Biochemistry, which includes both Automation and Specialist sections, the post holder will be responsible for the design and implementation of the laboratory’s Quality Management System. They as a Quality Manager will manage the system with the aim that the laboratory becomes progressively more effective in quality terms and meets both regulatory and accreditation requirement. The post holder will have the skills and ability to promote quality within all areas of the laboratory. Modern methods of quality management and of quality process control are central to effective Pathology services. They are also vital to the clinical governance and risk management within those services.

The successful candidate should hold a current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). They should have either a specialist diploma in Clinical Biochemistry or an MSc in a relevant subject and at least 3 years’ experience in a Chemistry laboratory as an established BMS.

Our Biochemistry Department, spread across two floors, is an exciting state of the art laboratory connected to other departments via our GLP track system, which is unique in it’s scale and spans over multiple floors. It is based in our flagship hub laboratory, ‘The Halo Building’ which is home to more than 1,000 staff working within a connected suite of laboratories spanning more than 100,000 square feet. It has dedicated clinical and non-clinical cores for vertical connectivity. The pioneering work conducted at the Halo is seamlessly linked to our group national network of hub and spoke laboratories throughout the UK including NHS Trust.

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

**• No banding restrictions: **As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

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