Job summary
- Main area
- Microbiology
- Grade
- Band 5/6
- Contract
- Permanent: Band 5/6
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7153984
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £29,970 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Biomedical Scientist B5/6 Microbiology
Band 5/6
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
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Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Microbiology Department, Pathology Department, Stepping Hill Hospital
Specialist Biomedical Scientist Band 5/6
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
An opportunity has become available to work with Stockport Pathology Microbiology Department. The post is 37.5 hours per week and the successful candidate will need to participate in the on call and shift work rotas.
Please note - this vacancy may close early if we receive a large volume of applications
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited from a suitably qualified, motivated and enthusiastic person to join our busy, friendly team in the Microbiology Department based at Stepping Hill Hospital
Applicants must possess or be working towards the Specialist Portfolio in Microbiology or have significant experience of working within a Clinical Microbiology Department.
The successful candidate will be required to participate in the emergency on-call rota
Participation in a weekend /late/ early working and bank holiday rota is essential. The following shifts are worked on a rotational basis: 8:00am to 4.20 pm, 9:00am to 5.20 pm, and 12pm to 8pm.
Core working hour’s pattern is 7.5 hours per day Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.20pm (with a 50 minute unpaid break).
The department is accredited to UKAS:ISO 15189 and has IBMS approval for the registration and specialist portfolios
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To perform microbiological processing and direct microscopy of clinical samples.
- To examine culture plates for the presence of pathogenic organisms and to carry out routine and specialist diagnostic testing to identify and confirm recognised pathogens.
- To perform antibiotic testing of pathogens following departmental standard operating procedures.
- To perform microscopic examination for infertility investigation screening
- To maintain a high quality of work within the Department and perform quality control procedures
- To submit test results as required for the purpose of internal and national Quality Control Schemes
- To operate as a lone worker for the department - outside core hours, at weekends and on late night rotas and be required to report clinically significant results directly to hospital staff.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
- If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £21.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must be HCPC registered
- Willing to start Specialist portfolio or have equivalent experience
- Experience working with LIMs
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Aware of current developments in Biomedical Science/ have recent CPD
- Knowledge of UKAS:ISO 15189
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of a document control system
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Have started Specialist portfolio
- Be working as a state registered BMS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator
- Evidence of team working
Desirable criteria
- experience of lone working
Work related
Essential criteria
- Able to handle clincical samples
- Willing to work out of hours
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sadie Macmaster
- Job title
- Technical Head of Microbiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 419 5601
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