Synnovis
Principal Clinical Scientist
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Clinical Scientist Opportunity in Steroid Diagnostics
Are you a Clinical Scientist looking to develop expertise in a highly specialised area within a nationally renowned service? This is a rare opportunity to join one of the UK's leading steroid diagnostic laboratories, investigating inherited disorders of steroid metabolism and steroid-secreting tumours.
Once trained in the interpretation and reporting of urine steroid profiles, you will play a pivotal role in delivering complex diagnostic services. The work is intellectually challenging but exceptionally rewarding, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference to patient care, while developing your skills in a unique and highly respected field.
You will work as a Principal Clinical Scientist within our Steroid laboratory, Blackfriars Hub, London, utilising both gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).
The Steroid laboratory is home to the Supra Regional Assay and Advisory Service (SAAS) designated urine steroid profiling service, one of only two such services in the UK.
Using GC-MS, urine steroid profiling is an especially powerful diagnostic tool for the investigation of inborn errors of adrenal and gonadal steroid metabolism, as well as in the diagnosis of steroid-secreting adrenal tumours in order to identify malignancy. A significant part of your role will be to support this area of the service, by becoming proficient in the interpretation and reporting of urine steroid profiles.
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Responsibilities
- Individual Responsibility: The job holder will have a large degree of individual responsibility and must be HCPC-registered as a Clinical Scientist. You should also be in possession of FRCPath Part 1.
- Scientific Leadership: Provide scientific leadership to our complimentary LC-MS/MS steroid assays that target specific steroids in serum, along with urine free cortisol.
- Patient Benefit: The subject matter can be complex, but it is highly rewarding, providing an opportunity to directly benefit patient management and clinical decision making on a regular basis.
- GC-MS/LC-MS/MS Training: While prior experience of steroid profile interpretation and/or application of GC-MS/LC-MS/MS techniques in clinical laboratories is highly desirable, it is not essential as full training will be provided.
Collaboration
- Departmental Work: The Steroid laboratory is part of the wider Reference Chemistry department, which also includes Toxicology, Immunochemistry, Metabolic, Porphyrin and Inherited Metabolic Diseases. The successful candidate may also contribute to the scientific leadership across one or more of these sections as required.
- Team Work: Work as part of a team of 8: clinical scientists, biomedical scientists and MLAs.
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Continuous Improvement
- Quality Assurance: Work towards UKAS 15189 re-accreditation following the move of the Steroid Laboratory to the hub location earlier this year.
Learning and Development
- Professional Growth: You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The ACCE competencies programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding / support for advanced qualifications.
- Innovation: Through our Innovation Accelerator Fund, you can apply for finance to get that new innovative scientific project off the ground, and participate with the wider scientific community through symposiums, conferences and other peer group meetings.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: David Taylor
- Job Title: Consultant Clinical Scientist
- Email Address: david.taylor@synnovis.co.uk
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