Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge? Then look no further!

Come and join a well-established friendly team, working within a modern, well equipped, fully UKAS 15189 accredited regional immunology laboratory. You must be a HCPC registered biomedical scientist. Candidates will be appointed to the band 5 pay scale, dependent on the criteria listed in the person specification. Candidates who have completed the IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Immunology may be eligible for appointment at Band 6. We may also consider applications from individuals who can demonstrate that they are close to completion of the pre-registration portfolio.

We are committed to supporting our staff and their professional development. As an IBMS-approved training laboratory, we provide excellent opportunities for learning, career progression, and continuing professional development within a supportive team environment.

This post will be appointed to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, however candidates should be aware that Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is part of a pathology collaboration project. Four provider organisations in Lancashire and south Cumbria have formed a network and collaborate on pathology services, they include Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job
We are well equipped to provide an efficient high quality regional diagnostic service. Our equipment comprises of a Navios flow cytometer, DSII ELISA processors, Capillarys 2 Flex, Hydrasys 2 scan, Euroblot One, Bioplex, Helios slide processors, Phadia 2500, Phadia 1000, 2 x Phadia 250's and a BNII .

Staff rotate within the immunology department throughout three sections; autoimmunity, flow cytometry and immunochemistry and allergy. This provides an excellent opportunity to develop expertise in both advanced automated technologies and specialist manual laboratory techniques within a supportive training environment.

This is a part-time post working 26.25 hours per week.

The post is part time 26.25 hours per week.

About us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people and do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Details
Date posted: 16 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £48,117 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 438-PB4195
Job locations: Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9HT, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties will include, but not be limited to:

• Performing work duties to the standards required as a HCPC biomedical scientist
• Undertaking the correct procedures for the handling of specimens, pre and post analysis
• Maintaining and operating equipment used in the preparation and analysis of specimens
• Performing a range of laboratory tests autonomously and demonstrating an understanding of the scientific basis for tests and the disease processes under investigation
• Demonstrating awareness of factors affecting sample integrity, risks associated with the sample reagents, or method and other tests indicated by the outcome of the analysis
• Using the main laboratory computer system in accordance with service requirements

For more information, please see the job description.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree (or equivalent) suitable for HCPC registration
• HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist
• Evidence of regular CPD activities

Desirable

• IBMS membership

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Experience of working ina clinical pathology laboratory as a biomedical scientist
• Understanding of health and safety legislation pertaining to clinical laboratories
• Understand the components of a quality management system
• Can demonstrate continuing competence in good laboratory general practice

Desirable

• Problem solving ability
• Understanding of laboratory quality issues
• Familiar with pathology LIMS
• Good knowledge of immunological processes in health and disease
• Experience of working in a clinical immunology laboratory

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Employer details
Employer name: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9HT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Lead biomedical scientist, Laboratory manager
Seema Chudasama
seema.chudasama@lthtr.nhs.uk
01772522133

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