Specialist Biomedical Scientist, Biochemistry (PF)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Specialist Biomedical Scientist in Clinical Biochemistry to join our Blood Sciences team. Pathology First operates over three sites using a hub and spoke model. Our hub site offers a high throughput service for our non-urgent community work, and specialist testing for specific proteins. Our two hospital laboratories at Southend and Basildon provide urgent testing for acute admissions and inpatients Our laboratories receive approximately 1.2 million clinical biochemistry requests per year, on which we do approximately 12 million tests. The main analyser platforms are Beckman Coulter, fully tracked at the hub laboratory, backed up with Roche. The hospital repertoire includes routine biochemistry and immunoassay assays alongside lactate, osmolality, ammonia, bile acids, troponin T, BNP, xanthochromia, therapeutic drugs, procalcitonin, BHCG and cortisol. The hub laboratory repertoire is more extensive including specific protein analysis, hormone assays, haematinics and esoteric chemistry analyses. The main IT platform for all sites is Clinisys WinPath Enterprise.