Job summary
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in a place to take your career to the next level? Would you like to join a friendly, progressive, innovative team in pathology services across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw based at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals? Do you want to work in a fully UKAS-accredited, modern laboratory environment where you can make a difference?

Then read on.

The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (SYB) Pathology Network is a fully integrated network providing pathology services across five regional sites

• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (DBTHFT)
• The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRHFT)
• Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT)
• Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT
• Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT)

We are inviting applications from enthusiastic, driven individuals to join our Haematology teams at the Doncaster site.

SYB Pathology aims to provide the best possible service for patients and clinicians, improving health outcomes, driving research and innovation, delivering healthcare efficiencies, and ensuring a sustainable workforce, providing job satisfaction and career progression opportunities for all staff.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as an HCPC-registered Biomedical Scientist providing scientific services to patients as an aid to clinical diagnosis. The successful candidate will be required and undertake a wide range of complex analytical procedures, performing a range of manual, semi-automated and automated tests using scientific knowledge and experience to comment upon and validate results in line with ISO 15189.

Suitable candidates will require Haematology experience and be nearing completion of their registration portfolio and ideally have experience of working out of hours.

Please also note this vacancy is banded dependent upon applicants experience relevant to this post. The banding of the successful applicant will start at Band 5 unless applicants meet the necessary threshold of skills and experience required to start on Band 6.

About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

STHFT operates with a budget of £1.2 bn, has a workforce of over 18,500 employees, covers five hospital sites, provides care from over forty community settings, and has an excellent reputation for research.

As an organisation we value and respect our staff and the community we serve. We provide excellent staff benefits; this includes commitment to professional development but also many initiatives to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Pathology Network are invested in training, developing, and supporting staff in all aspects including academic courses from certificates of achievement, registration, specialist and higher specialist IBMS portfolios, apprenticeships and leadership and management qualifications.

We pride ourselves in enabling opportunity across all our sites to develop staff and provide a strong and sustained service for the future.

24/7 working and cross site working for Biomedical Scientists (BMS) within the Blood Sciences services within SYB Pathology.

Details
Date posted: 12 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £48,117 a year
pa/pro rata for part time staff
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 190-1849-DIR
Job locations: Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster, DN2 5LT, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• (Band 5 & 6) IBMS accredited BSC in Biomedical Sciences
• (Band 5 & 6) Registered with HCPC as a Biomedical Scientist
• (Band 6) IBMS Specialist Diploma in a relevant specialist subject or a Masters degree and equivalent experience.
• (Band 5) Completion of IBMS post graduate registration portfolio
• (Band 5 & 6) Commitment to complete and maintain Mandatory Training and required Laboratory competencies
• (Band 5) Commitment to complete the relevant Specialist BMS IBMS portfolio
• (Band 6) Commitment to continuous professional development required to maintain HCPC registration

Desirable

• (Band 5 & 6) Evidence of continued CPD including relevant courses with regards to H&S, leadership, quality or training

Experience
Essential

• (Band 5 & 6) Experience of range of laboratory techniques
• (Band 6) Discipline specific NHS experience in a UKAS accredited laboratory (Microbiology/Virology laboratory)
• (Band 6) Experience working within a laboratory providing local, regional or national tertiary reference facilities
• (Band 6) Detailed understanding of job content
• (Band 6) Ability to work with other colleagues to improve and develop working practices
• (Band 6) Experience in the implementation of new methodologies and /or equipment
• (Band 6) Experience with the UKAS accreditation process
• (Band 6) Multi - disciplinary awareness
• (Band 6) Experience with a wide range of laboratory techniques in use across Blood sciences
• (Band 6) Experience in demonstrating leadership qualities

Desirable

• (Band 5) Discipline specific NHS laboratory experience
• (Band 5) Multi - disciplinary awareness
• (Band 5) Experience in demonstrating leadership qualities

Skills and Knowledge
Essential

• (Band 5 & 6) Keyboard and basic IT skills
• (Band 5 & 6) Have an awareness of Health & Safety issues
• Band 5 & 6) Can communicate effectively with staff of all grades
• (Band 6) Evidence of effective time management skills and with a methodical approach
• (Band 6) Able to follow and work to SOP and Policy
• (Band 6) Ability to work individually and part of a team.
• (Band 6) Maintains composure in pressurised situations
• (Band 6) Ability to plan and prioritise allocated work

Personal Qualities
Essential

• (Band 6) Understand and follow clear instructions
• (Band 6) Participation in weekend and evening work and out of hours shifts as required. This includes participation in a 24/7 shift pattern.
• (Band 6) Commitment to role

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

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

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster, DN2 5LT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Chief BMS
Gemma Harte
gemmalouise.harte@nhs.net
01302644031