Barts Health Nhs Trust Jobs – Clinical Scientist In Manchester, UK

Overview

Position Title: Clinical Scientist

Company: Barts Health NHS Trust

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description:

We are a new organisation, jointly owned by Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Set up as an arms-length organisation, hosted by Barts Health NHS Trust, we have our own board and governance, with each of the three trusts having an equal voice and vote in the running of the Pathology Partnership. One of the largest pathology providers in the NHS, the Pathology Partnership brings together the strengths of teams from each of the three trusts into a single organisation, dedicated to the provision of pathology.

A complex transformation programme has commenced to become a single, integrated pathology network. The aspired ‘hub and spoke’ operating model, centred at The Royal London Hospital (RLH) and connected to essential service laboratories located at partnered hospitals. The RLH laboratories include a well-equipped Molecular Pathology facility that includes a number of state-of-the-art sequencing platforms

The Microbiology Department provide a comprehensive clinical and diagnostic microbiology service with a full range of methodologies including bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and molecular diagnostics. Our TB service is one of the largest in the country.

Responsibilities:

•  The successful applicant will be responsible for driving the molecular service forward, as well as improving the diagnostic service we provide across the Trust, by participating in clinician-led research projects.

Requirements:

• We are looking for someone who has had experience in a Microbiology diagnostic laboratory and in particular PCR and sequencing.