Consultant Biomedical Scientist

About the role

Every test we process could make a life changing difference. As the single provider of the NHS Cervical Screening Service (hr-HPV testing and cervical cytology) in the London Region, our central lab handles around 650,000 samples each year, and your expertise will help ensure women across London receive the timely, accurate results they deserve.

Based in our modern flagship laboratory in the Halo Building, just minutes from Euston, King's Cross, and St Pancras, you will join a high skilled collaborative team dedicated to protecting women's health and advancing patient care.

• Providing consultant level reporting on complex cervical cytology cases.
• Participating in MDMs and invasive cancer audit reviews.
• Mentoring and supporting medical and scientific staff to develop their skills.
• Building strong internal and external relationships to maintain service excellence.

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.

Essential Requirement - IBMS Advanced Specialist Diploma in cervical cytology

Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard).