About the Role

The Blood Sciences Clinical Chemistry department is based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital with a satellite laboratory at Birmingham Women’s Hospital that provides Fetal Anomaly Screening services to a large number of Trusts across NHSE and the British Isles. There are close links with Newborn Screening and Biochemical Genetics Department. Our laboratories are well equipped (Roche and Beckman analysers) and provide UKAS accredited services. There is a requirement to work within laboratories at both hospital sites.

There is close liaison within the Trust with the hepatology, endocrinology, renal, gastroenterology, and antenatal screening teams with respect to patient management and laboratory service development. This is an exciting opportunity for biochemists with interest and experience in neonatal/paediatric/obstetric biochemistry and foetal anomaly screening to take a greater leadership role.

Requirements

You should be a HCPC registered clinical scientist (Biochemistry) with FRCPath Part 1. The Department is accredited for NSHCS STP Biochemistry training.

Responsibilities

• To assist in providing a comprehensive scientific service to nationally accepted standards and provide senior oversight and leadership in key areas of service provision, for example, expansion of trisomy 18 screening.
• The post holder will participate in both the duty biochemist rota and FAS authorisation rota.
• You will be expected to communicate highly complex information with a variety of people such as laboratory staff, trainees and students, midwives, consultants, and industry representatives regarding FAS and clinical chemistry testing.
• The post holder will be involved in the research, evaluation, verification, and implementation of new methods and instruments as directed by the Head of Clinical Chemistry Department and Director of Antenatal screening.
• You will manage day-to-day workload in order to fulfill requirements of service provision.