East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Consultant Clinical Scientist-Pathology
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About the Role
We are recruiting for a Consultant Clinical Scientist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
A newly created position has arisen at Lister Hospital (Stevenage). It is an exciting time to be joining East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust with several developments and future alignment with other clinical laboratories across the HWE network.
The ESL (Lister) is undergoing transformation with installation of state-of-the-art clinical chemistry analysers and new LIMS system. With this will be the opportunity to contribute to the shape and future of pathology services.
The successful candidate will join a biochemistry team comprising of one Consultant Chemical Pathology and one Principal Clinical Scientist (Biochemistry), with the department currently also hosting a specialist Registrar in Chemical Pathology metabolic Medicine and a trainee clinical scientist.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist, and develop where required, a comprehensive scientific and clinical advisory service within Clinical Biochemistry, including Point of Care Testing (POCT).
- Support clinical team in maintaining general laboratory service provision and quality assurance management.
- Result authorisation and reporting, laboratory support for quality control and external quality assurance review, POCT clinical support and leadership, clinical review and sign off for analyser verifications, vetting of esoteric investigations.
- Clinical liaison with ENHT clinical staff (most notably paediatrics and endocrinology) and primary care.
- Attendance at MDTs and other meetings as necessary.
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Location and Working Conditions
The post holder will be based at the Lister Hospital but there may be a requirement on occasion to travel to HWE Hub site at Croxley Park, Watford.
There will also be a requirement to participate in a Duty Biochemistry rota and an out-of-hours on-call rota (minimum of 1 in 3 weeks which includes weekends and Bank Holidays).
Our Core Values
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
About Us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
Flexible Working
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Laarni Calonzo
- Job title: Head of Operations
- Email address: l.calonzo@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07919416553
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