Job Summary
Join us to deliver outstanding pathology services. The Government of Jersey has an exciting opportunity to recruit a Biomedical Scientist Team Manager to lead the Blood Transfusion Team. Step into a world where breath-taking scenery unfolds, where safety and inclusivity thrive and where miles of sandy beaches beckon during warm summers and mild winters. Jersey is a unique place to live and work and being a Biomedical Scientist in Jersey is different. As a crown dependency, we are an Island nation which includes our own healthcare Service. And it is a service on the move. With our patients and health professionals at the centre of all we do, as a Biomedical Scientist you have more time to deliver your role and we give more time to you, for your development and wellbeing. Every day, our dedicated team takes immense pride in their work, delivering exceptional care of the highest calibre to our Island community. Biomedical Scientists provide a broader range of services in Jersey including cellular pathology, virology, blood science and blood donor services. The variety of services that you will work in Jersey is far more extensive, our team rotate every week to provide an interesting and diverse role. And as with many aspects of Island life, our healthcare system is familiar enough for comfort but offers variances that mean our Biomedical Scientists have a different experience.

Main duties of the job
Lead a team of specialist biomedical scientists and support staff applying advanced scientific knowledge, methods and technology to the investigation of blood samples, to guide the clinical diagnosis and management of disease and to ensure the safety of the islands blood supply, to the benefit of islanders health. Join us to deliver outstanding pathology services, the Government of Jersey has an exciting opportunity to recruit a Biomedical Scientist Team Manager to lead the Blood Transfusion Team. Step into a world where breath-taking scenery unfolds, where safety and inclusivity thrive and where miles of sandy beaches beckon during warm summers and mild winters. Jersey is a unique place to live and work and being a Biomedical Scientist in Jersey is different. As a crown dependency, we are an Island nation which includes our own healthcare Service. And it is a service on the move. Every day, our dedicated team takes immense pride in their work, delivering exceptional care of the highest calibre to our Island community. And as with many aspects of Island life, our healthcare system is familiar enough for comfort but offers variances that mean our Biomedical Scientists have a different experience. For an informal discussion please contact pathologycareers@health.gov.je

About us
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career. Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you're exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.

Job responsibilities
Statutory Responsibilities
Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time.
Job Specific Outcomes

• Lead a team performing a range of advanced haematology and transfusion laboratory analyses on patients and donors blood samples, giving advice on appropriate techniques, to guide and contribute to clinical diagnoses, treatments and the evaluation of the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
• Manage the work of a laboratory section, using personal knowledge, experience and interpersonal skills, to meet urgent clinical need and agreed turnaround times, aligned with evidence-based best practice, and contributing to cancer treatment targets, transfusion best practice, disease reduction and health promotion, and hospital bed occupancy management.
• Support and mentor the team to take personal ownership of scientific decisions that impact on patient care by reporting blood films, issuing compatible blood components and products, or investigating malignant, haemostatic, parasitic or other haematological conditions, to enable prompt and appropriate patient treatment.
• Oversee instrumentation and procedures, researching and investigating latest techniques, verifying techniques, ensuring the laboratory repertoire remains current and that results of investigations meet quality acceptance criteria.
• As the lead specialist for a laboratory section, manage and delegate effectively to specialist biomedical scientists the lead roles for specific areas of responsibility, such as coordination of IT systems, health and safety, audit, supplier management, or introduction and verification of new scientific techniques.
• Network with other professionals at all levels, some of whom may be off island, to give advice on guidelines and techniques, appropriate specimens and examinations, to manage users expectations and to collaborate on new service developments.
• Coordinate and manage internal and external quality assurance schemes, lead on internal audit and external accreditation, giving assurance to service users that the quality of laboratory work can be relied upon.
• Educate, train and assess the competence of less experienced employees in detailed laboratory processes and highly specialised scientific principles, take responsibility for their competency and continuing professional development so as to engender a culture of career-long learning.
• Supervise the writing and review of highly specialist documentation, the verification and control of procedural change, and accurate record keeping of scientific investigations to demonstrate commitment to quality and assurance.
• Assess and minimise clinical risk to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Advanced (MSc-level) knowledge of transfusion Science
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice in blood transfusion
• Degree-level knowledge of biomedical science
• Specialist knowledge of laboratory health and safety, infection prevention, risk management and laboratory information management
• Understand the key concepts of the knowledge base in the HCPC standards of proficiency for biomedical scientists
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice in blood transfusion
• Technical Work Based Skills
• Able to conduct highly specialist diagnostic laboratory investigations to reproducible standards in transfusion
• Able to demonstrate proficiency in specialist practical skills (e.g. examining blood films, identifying alloantibodies, investigating haemostasis anomalies etc.)
• Able to operate laboratory equipment in haematology and transfusion
• Able to work with accuracy and precision in conformance with standard operating procedures
• Able to authorise laboratory work according to predetermined quality standards
• Able to lead, supervise and motivate a team
• Able to train and assess the competence of others
• Able to prioritise and multitask
• Able to adapt practice to new developments through change control and verification processes
• Able to analyse and critically evaluate information
• Demonstrate a logical and systematic approach to problem solving
• Able to use appropriate information and communication technologies including laboratory information management systems
• Excellent verbal and written skills including report writing
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to work under own initiative
• Experience of working as an autonomous specialist practitioner in a relevant setting, acquired over approximately six years
• Evidence of continuing professional development that conforms to HCPC standards

Desirable

• Working knowledge of blood component manufacturing and experience of working in a blood establishment
• Experience of leading supervising and motivating a team

Qualifications
Essential

• MSc in haematology or transfusion science, accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) Or IBMS Higher Specialist Diploma in haematology or transfusion science Or Fellowship of the IBMS by a route demonstrably relevant to haematology and transfusion And Registered with the HCPC and the Jersey Care Commission as a biomedical scientist

Desirable

• IBMS certificate of expert practice in quality management
• IBMS certificate of expert practice in training
• Health and safety qualification or certificate
• Relevant information technology qualification or certificate
• Job-related mandatory training in health and safety, data security and safeguarding

Additional information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).