Senior Clinical Scientist/Trainee
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- Band
- Band 8
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- 36
- Hours / week
- 36
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 05/10/2026
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Role summary
NHS Tayside is seeking a Senior Clinical Scientist for the Immunology specialist discipline within their Diagnostic Laboratories. This role involves supporting the delivery of the Clinical Laboratory Service, ensuring compliance with ISO15189:2022 standards, and providing professional, scientific, and quality leadership. The successful candidate will work within a large, expanding immunology department based at Ninewells Hospital, a teaching hospital in Dundee. They will collaborate with various teams and report to the Clinical Lead for Immunology.
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 8 at £53,755 – £60,504 a year, across England.
This advert: £65,125 – £65,125 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
258996
Salary:
Band 8A (£65,125 - - £70,303)
Job closing date:
05/10/2026
Job Type:
Healthcare Sciences
Location:
Ninewells Hospital
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
36
Job posted date:
07/09/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Tayside
Department:
Diagnostics Laboratories Immunology
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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Scientist for the Immunology specialist discipline of Diagnostic Laboratories. The Immunology laboratory has undergone rapid expansion in the past 10 years and is now the second largest Immunology department in Scotland, we offer routine Immunology testing for NHS Tayside, Fife, Borders and Highland, with highly specialist tests offered across Scotland labs.
The Diagnostics Laboratories are based in Ninewells Hospital, a large Teaching hospital and Medical School in Dundee, and a multidisciplinary laboratory at Perth Royal Infirmary. The department is a UKAS accredited Medical Laborato
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