Biomedical Scientist - Advanced Specialist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
As a Biomedical Scientist Advanced Specialist, you will use your expertise in transfusion and transplantation science to deliver high-quality laboratory services. You will perform, interpret, and report complex investigations, ensuring accuracy and reliability. The role involves providing expert advice, supporting service improvement, and mentoring colleagues. This is an opportunity to contribute to patient care and save lives within NHS Blood and Transplant.
Key responsibilities
- Perform specialist and complex laboratory investigations that support safe transfusion and transplantation services.
- Analyse and interpret routine and complex test results, providing accurate and timely reporting.
- Maintain the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance for reliable services.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues, hospitals and partner services within your specialist area.
- Support and mentor healthcare scientists and other colleagues in their development.
- Lead and contribute to service improvements by identifying trends, investigating issues and implementing effective solutions.
Essential criteria
- MSc in transfusion, transplantation, or a relevant scientific discipline, or an IBMS Higher Specialist Diploma (HSD) in Transfusion Science or a relevant science subject.
- Completion of a formal postgraduate training programme with relevant in-service experience, or equivalent alternative training and experience.
- HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist, with registration maintained throughout employment.
- Membership of a relevant professional body, such as the British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS) or British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI).
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) and a commitment to maintaining and expanding specialist expertise.
- Extensive experience working in a diagnostic or testing laboratory, with specialist expertise in transfusion science.
- Strong ability to analyse information and resolve complex scientific and technical problems.
- Experience building effective working relationships with colleagues, healthcare professionals, and service users.
- Ability to prioritise competing demands, manage workloads effectively and work to challenging deadlines.
- Experience supervising, training, or mentoring colleagues and sharing specialist knowledge with others.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
As a Biomedical Scientist Advanced Specialist within NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you'll use your specialist expertise in transfusion and transplantation science to help deliver high-quality laboratory services that support patient care and save lives.
You'll perform, interpret and report complex investigations, ensuring results are accurate, reliable and delivered to the highest quality standards. Working alongside scientific, clinical and healthcare colleagues, you'll provide expert advice, support service improvement and help solve complex scientific challenges. You'll also play a key role in developing others by sharing your knowledge, mentoring colleagues and contributing to training within the laboratory.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in a specialist environment where your expertise is valued, your learning continues, and your work directly supports NHSBTs mission to save and improve lives.
Please note, the Laboratory will be open between the hours of 08:00 to 22:00, Monday Friday and 09:00 17:00 on Saturdays. You will take part in a shift rota to work during these hours and will also participate in an on-call rota.
Main duties of the job
- Perform specialist and complex laboratory investigations that support safe transfusion and transplantation services and help improve patient outcomes.
- Analyse and interpret routin
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