Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.    To discuss and advise clinicians and other healthcare workers, including senior medical staff, on the interpretation of clinical biochemistry results eg. advice on differential diagnosis, appropriate test selection, monitoring and guidance on therapeutic drug monitoring. This may involve the instigation of additional tests that may be appropriate for an individual patient. In more complex and challenging cases to seek advice of consultant staff in Clinical Biochemistry.

2.    To participate in the Duty Biochemist rota, to undertake detailed interpretation, authorisation and reporting of patient results and advising clinical colleagues on the appropriate selection and timing of tests. To deal with all clinical queries arising during this time, referring to Consultant staff when necessary.

3.    To attend clinical meetings with other departments and relevant MDTs to provide advice on availability of laboratory investigations and their interpretation.

4.    To use knowledge and skills gained to determine the validity of sending samples to external laboratories for analysis where requirements are outside the scope of the laboratory repertoire. To liaise with such laboratories as to the suitability of such samples for analysis.

5.    To contribute to the determination of appropriate strategies and guidelines for laboratory investigations in conjunction with laboratory colleagues and after consultation with users of the service.

*Please refer to the attached detailed job description.