Job Description

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.



Please note, we would also consider part time hours for this position.

Full time working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm.

• The Clinical Scientist is responsible for remaining a fully registered consultant clinical scientist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical Scientist with inclusion on the Higher Specialist Scientist Register held by the Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS) and hold FRCPath or equivalent as appropriate.
• Participate in annual competency assessments to provide assurance of clinical competence and delivery of a safe and effective clinical service.
• Plan and direct research and development, where appropriate
• Provide input into the selection of equipment, methods, and reagents appropriate to the needs of customers and ensure that test methodologies can provide the quality of results required for patient care.
• Assures that test methods are validated against established acceptance criteria.
• Assures that verification procedures are adequate to determine the accuracy and reliability of test methods.
• Provide assurance that only suitable specimens are analysed, and rejection criteria are defined.
• Assures that test results are reported only when the system is functioning properly.
• Line management and other responsibilities for laboratory staff including Biomedical Scientists, assuring competence of staff performing tasks that affect patient results
• Contribute to maintaining and improving the quality of the laboratory services, with implementation of a quality management system including quality plan, quality standards, quality manual with policies and procedures.
• Participates in audits, surveys, inspections, and incident investigation.
• Ensure EQA samples are tested in the same manner as patients\xe2\x80\x99 specimens.
• Ensure paperwork is completed accurately and results submission deadlines are met.
• Assess potential clinical impact on patient care and outcome and liaise with laboratory customers where indicated.
• Ensure an effective system of clinical governance is in place including.
• Maintaining UKAS accreditation to ISO 15189:2012 and supporting accreditation to ISO 15189: 2022 following a period of transition.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered clinical scientist with FRCPath or equivalent with inclusion on the Higher Specialist Scientist Register (HSSR) held by the Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS)
• Knowledge and experience of Biochemistry
• Knowledge of clinical governance of medical laboratories including clinical audit and quality control.
• Proven experience within a comprehensive clinical service including advice regarding appropriate specimens, involvement in specimen analysis, validation, interpretation of results and liaison with customers, appropriate involvement in development of policies and SOPs relevant to consultant duties and participation in clinical governance
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate effectively with clinical colleagues, colleagues in pathology and support staff.
• Computer literate
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice
• Ability to present effectively to an audience, using a variety of methods, and to respond to questions and queries
• Self-motivated, proactive, innovative
• Able to prioritise work and cope with change and uncertainty.

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme \xe2\x80\x93 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday \xe2\x80\x93 there\xe2\x80\x99s something to suit everyone\xe2\x80\x99s lifestyle.

What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it\'s incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you\'ll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it\'s requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don\xe2\x80\x99t match 100% of the requirements? Don\xe2\x80\x99t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

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