BMS Lead - Biomedical Scientist Lead

Job Description

VS363/09BMS Lead - Biomedical ScientistLeadLocation: GlasgowJob Type: PermanentHours: 37.5 Hours per week on a shift rota, between the hours of 7am - 6.30pm Monday - Friday, Saturdays between 7.30am - 3.30pm and Sunday morningsSalary:£50,000 - £60,000Our client, a well-known healthcare and leading Scientific organisation are looking for an experienced and motivated BMS Lead to join one of their laboratories in Glasgow. You must be HCPC-registered and have experience in at least one of the followingdisciplines: BT, Haematology, BiochemistryOverall Job Purpose:To manage the daily operation of the Pathology Laboratory. To take responsibility for staff teams of a variety of grades, ensuring supervision of activities, such that service, operational and contractual KPIs are met. The post holder will work closely withSenior BMSs to ensure that sections are run effectively for a high quality and reliable service delivery.Assist in the performance of the routine diagnostic analytical work. Ensuring work meets all standards as required by accreditation bodies. Adhere closely to SOPs and assist in putting these methods into practice and adhering to associated quality assuranceprocedures.Main dutiesScientific, Technical and Professional

• Supervise teams of various grades of scientific and support staff and ensure they plan and organise their workload effectively.
• Undertake work assigned; in compliance with current UKAS accreditation and companys Quality Management System and H&S requirements.
• Work to contracted KPIs and service standards and ensure that service sections meet and improve on these.
• Undertake routine manual, semi-automated and automated analytical work on a range of biological materials.
• Technical validation and authorisation of results, taking appropriate action in line with SOPs; to include adding approved comments, communication and referring results for clinical interpretation as required.
• Operate, maintain and troubleshoot various pieces of laboratory equipment and to ensure all items are correctly functioning and quality controlled at all times.
• Raise service calls with support services and external suppliers in cases of equipment or resource failure; manage successful fault resolution.
• Be fully familiar with all laboratory IT systems, including appropriate utilisation in discharges of duties.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with all grades of staff both scientific and medical to ensure the effective delivery of the laboratory service.
• Supervise a designated section of the service, including monitoring and managing staff, equipment and other resources to ensure an efficient, effective and high quality service delivery.
• Report staff performance, technical, quality and service failure issues to the Ops Manager
• Apply specialist and technical knowledge to advise laboratory staff on technical and trouble-shooting queries.
• Maintain quality standards in the laboratory through IQC review and trending, incident reporting, auditing and change control.

Leadership and Communication

• Maintain effective communication with staff, ensuring records are kept of items discussed.
• Coordinate and contribute to team, section, quality and general management meetings; including use of data from Group systems such as Tableau, Q-pulse, Totara, to drive the improved performance of the laboratory.
• Ensure departmental records, including those relating to payroll, absence reporting and training are updated and maintained.
• Conduct staff annual review, regularly assess performance of the team and ensure shortfalls are escalated to the Regional manager and managed within policy.
• Form productive relationships with staff and teams, ensuring that professionalism is maintained and promoted; to provide motivation and direction for a clinically safe service.

Administrative

• Order supplies and ensure adequate stocks are maintained
• Manage bench rotas for staff members
• Assist in the selection, recruitment and induction of staff
• Regularly review the performance of staff and conduct annual joint reviews
• Review and update SOPs as directed by the Regional Manager/ QMG/ Qpulse workload.

Training and Education

• Maintain registration with (HCPC).
• Participate in and provide appropriate seminars, lectures and training sessions as indicated by PDP and agreed with Regional Manager at joint review.
• Assist in the development of all staff at the direction of the Regional manager/ training officer.
• Assess the competence of staff at the direction of the Regional manager/ training officer.

Health & Safety

• Be familiar & competent with procedures for dealing with the safe handling of biological and chemical materials and spillages in a laboratory environment.

Quality Standards

• Understand and perform all work in accordance with the SOPs in order to ensure compliance with all local and national standards of work practice, e.g. ISO 15189:2012.
• To comply with company policies pertinent to Clinical Governance and Risk Management.
• To ensure quality control and assurance procedures are followed.
• To ensure analytical accuracy and confidentiality of results observing rules laid down by the Data Protection Act.
• Participate in the agreed audit programme as required.

Education & Training:

• Provide support for less experienced colleagues as req