Job Overview

Team Manager Biomedical Scientist CS11

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. 

For an informal discussion please contact pathologycareers@health.gov.je

Job Purpose

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 island’s blood supply, to the benefit of islanders’ health.

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 broad range of blood 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 blood transfusion/ donation processing and testing workload, through good teamwork to ensure urgent clinical needs and agreed turnaround times are met and aligned to good manufacturing and transfusion best practice.

Responsible for ensuring the personnel directly involved in the testing storage, distribution and issue of human blood and blood components are qualified to perform those tasks and are given timely, relevant and regular training and competency assessment.

Responsible for ensuring serious adverse event relating to the testing, storage and distribution of blood and blood components or serious adverse reactions observed during or after transfusion are investigated and reported in compliance with BSQR 2005 and local procedures. Maintain the procedure for the withdrawal and disposal of unsafe blood and blood components associated with product recall.

Ensure a record of full traceability of blood and blood components is maintained from the point of blood collection (Jersey donations) or receipt of UK units into the hospital blood bank to the point of transfusion into the patient.

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 and the principles of good laboratory practice.

Job Specific Outcomes 2

Delegate effectively to specialist biomedical scientist’s the roles for specific areas of responsibility, such as health and safety, audit, supplier management, or introduction and verification of new scientific techniques. 

Give advice on guidelines and techniques, appropriate specimens and examinations, to manage users’ expectations and to collaborate on new service developments, networking with other healthcare professions on and off island.

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.

Participate in the writing and review of quality management and operational documentation, the verification and control of procedural change, and accurate record keeping of scientific investigations to demonstrate commitment to quality and assurance.

Maintain the data needed to ensure full traceability of blood and blood components from the point of blood collection (Jersey bled units) or receipt of UK units into the hospital blood bank to the point of transfusion into the patient.

Provide HR and people management functions for the staff they line manage.

As one of the Blood Sciences Team Managers provide managerial cover in the absence of one of the other section managers or the Laboratory Manager for Blood Sciences.

Qualifications

ESSENTIAL

MSc in transfusion science, accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)

Or

 IBMS Higher Specialist Diploma in transfusion science

 Or

Fellowship of the IBMS by a route demonstrably relevant transfusion science

Registered with the HCPC and the Jersey Care Commission as a biomedical scientist

Qualifications 2

 DESIRABLE

IBMS certificate of expert practice  in Leadership

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

Knowledge

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

ESSENTIAL

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

DESIRABLE

Working knowledge of blood component manufacturing and experience of working in a blood establishment

General skills / attributes

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

General Skills 2

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

ESSENTIAL

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

Experience of leading supervising and motivating a team