Clinical Scientist

Job Location	Colindale
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	£46,836 - £52,849 per annum
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent , full-time

Job Description

Job summary As the Clinical Scientist, your main responsibilities will include:This post is positioned within the Clinical Services Unit of the Public Health Microbiology Division of UKHSA.Microbiology reference laboratories undertake complex and highly skilled techniques which often require nationally or internationally unique capabilities or facilities. Reference laboratories are required to provide authoritative, final and validated analysisfor complex clinical or food microbiological problems and be innovative in driving microbiological methodology developments and standards. They have a key role in the provision of expert advice to government and other national and international agencies, riskassessment for new and emerging microbiological threats and play an important role in teaching and training organism specific and subject matter expertise to all grades of professional medical, nursing, scientific and technical staff. Design of national microbiologicalsurveillance programmes and sampling strategies and outbreak detection and control are part of day to day work of reference laboratories. This post will support the development and application of diagnostic methods, both serological and molecular, for thedetection and analysis of blood borne virus infections and the clinical authorization of diagnostic results for sexually transmitted and blood borne infections, mainly HIV, HTLV, syphilis and other organisms as required by the department. Main duties of the job

Technical/Scientific/Reference services/Research and Development
Management of Staff
Financial management
Quality / Governance
Research and Development
Information Technology

The above is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. You will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by the directorate. Please use the below link for more informaiton or submit your application!

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