Band 6 Specialist Biomedical Scientist - Histology

We have a Band 6 Specialist Biomedical Scientist post vacant within the Histology department based at Queen’s Hospital, Romford. The department receives 40,000 patient episodes(requests) per annum amounting to 73,000 plus specimens from a full range of care group specialties. For this post you must be HCPC registered, have completed the IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Cellular Pathology or have extensive recent experience working as a BMS in Histology. You must be currently working in a routine histology laboratory with experience of work in this field as a necessity. You should be friendly, professional, and pro-active, self-motivating, innovative and be able to demonstrate excellent communication (verbal and written), organisation and manual dexterity skills. You need to demonstrate a patient focused approach to work and detail how you are committed to continual improvement of self, the service, and your team. The department operates Monday to Friday but will look to move to extending this in 2026.

This post is based at Queen’s Hospital, but all staff must be prepared to work at King George Hospital if required.

The post holder will perform the scientific investigations required in the Department of Histology under the direction of the senior Biomedical Scientists. Delegated duties may include supervision of trainees, an involvement in training , quality and or health and safety.

The purpose of the role is to support the diagnostic service provided by the department to the trust.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Graham Thwaites Job title: Head Biomedical Scientist - Cellular Pathology Email address: graham.thwaites@nhs.net Telephone number: 01708435000

Ext: 2813 / 3998