Job Title: Blood Sciences Head of Department
Department: Biochemistry
Location: HWE Hub, Croxley Park
Contract /Hours: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary range: Up to £68,125 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
About the role:
We have an exciting Head of Department (HOD) opportunity in Blood Sciences at the Croxley Park Hub; we are looking for an enthusiastic and committed experienced Biomedical Scientist who is ready to take the next leadership challenge. This role requires technical oversight and management of Biochemistry and Haematology laboratory sections.
The post holder must use a combination of technical knowledge and skills to ensure that appropriate sample testing is performed safely, accurately and in a timely manner, for every patient, every time, while maintaining the sites contracted performance for routine and urgent TATs. Broadly, the HOD will be responsible for managing their team regarding recruitment, monthly returns, rotas, annual leave approval, sickness absence and HR matters, they also maintain the department QMS, EQA schemes, TATs, and KPI reports.
The Head of Blood Sciences will be working closely with their seniors and a highly skilled team of Biomedical Scientists and support staff with responsibility for providing a comprehensive, high quality 24/7 service for Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) GP and Community providers. The role will also include building relationships with internal and external stakeholders in the network and being a key contact and representative for HSL.
The Hub offers state of the art processes, analytics, and pre-analytics. When fully operational, following transition of all sites across the HWE Network, the Hub will process 15,000 samples per day and the ideal candidate will have line management experience within either Biochemistry or Haematology.
A key requirement for this role is to meet the daily operational demands of the lab, where the candidate will need excellent interpersonal skills, be highly organised and able to delegate to keep operations running efficiently and effectively.
An important aspect of this role is the continual development of training, looking at innovative ways to engage and educate their team. This will involve working closely with the Training Officer to ensure competency and training is maintained to the required standard.
We are a team who are passionate about healthcare, patients, and career progression.
At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
- Annual salary review - salary and progression are aligned to our internal transparent pay structure (Progression Plus), supporting career development and structured annual salary reviews
- Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- Sick Pay Entitlement – one month’s full pay and one month’s half pay after probation
- Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
- Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
- Competitive annual leave allowance – 29 days.
- Flexible working hours – we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.
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