Healthcare Scientist Practitioner, Band 5- Chemical Pathology

Job summary

Permanent role to take an active role in the support of the Clinical Biochemistry Department which services the Health Community in Gloucestershire, including all inpatients/outpatients in the acute and community hospitals and all GP surgeries.

You will be supporting fellow state registered Healthcare Scientists in the provision of an effective, 24/7 high quality service.

You will actively support the team in being able to process approximately 33,000 assays (over 4000 samples) per day and enable the department to play a key role in supporting allied healthcare professionals who are reliant on our service.

This includes communication of any confidential urgent/abnormal results the technical validation of own work, maintaining and troubleshooting equipment and initial investigations into poor analyser performance.

To assist with training of new staff of all grades. Help to maintain turnaround times for all samples and stocks for hundreds of different reagents and Quality Control materials.

Working pattern details: Monday-Friday with weekends included as required. Night working is essential in this pattern.

Main duties of the job

Responsibility for ensuring all tests are performed according to established laboratory standard operating procedures and within agreed turnaround times.

Ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to the UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standard.

Responsibility for ensuring safe use and maintenance of expensive, complex equipment, maintaining appropriate records.

To supervise Trainee Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners and Medical Laboratory Assistants.

Full participation in a 24 hour shift pattern is expected. This includes working at both sites, sometimes as a lone worker

We are looking for an individual who has:

The ability to train & develop

Excellent communication skills

Demonstrate a high level of concentration

Understands own limitations and is not afraid to ask for help.

Flexible and able to demonstrate initiative.

Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Friendly, enthusiastic team player with good demonstrable interpersonal skills.

About us

The Chemical Pathology Department provides a UKAS accredited analytical and clinical interpretive service to support over 600,000 individuals within the Gloucestershire health community. We process over 1,200,000 patient requests (12 million tests) per annum within a 24/7, 365 day service.

We are a hard working team focused on improving patient outcomes and delivering high quality and fast turnaround times for all patient test requests.

Benefits include holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus eight general and public holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service

An annual personal development review to support your career aspirations

Automatic membership of the NHS Pension Scheme (unless you choose to opt out). New entrants to the scheme receive employer contributions of 5 - 14.5% dependant on salary.

Study leave for sponsored courses

Details

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year (pro rata if part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

318-26-T0085-A

Job locations

Trustwide

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN

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