Job vacancy: Consultant Clinical Scientist - Immunology, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

Job summary

Main area: Immunology
Grade: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Department is a 24/7 service)
Job ref: 287-DTC-106-26

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Liverpool Clinical Laboratories
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/10/2026 23:59

Consultant Clinical Scientist - Immunology

Band 8c

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details, please see attached job description

To provide all Consultants and junior medical staff in this, and other Trust, with a timely, highly specialist, clinical scientific and technical service.

To participate in the immunology clinical scientist rota, assuming independent responsibility on such occasions for the clinical authorisation and issue of reports.

To present complex, sensitive or contentious clinical or scientific information to medical and nursing staff and managers within the Trust and other Trusts or PCTs when appropriate, using professional knowledge and experience.

To offer specialist scientific and clinical advice concerning patient investigations and results, in highly complex cases when appropriate.

To undertake the timely clinical authorisation and reporting of patient clinical test results to clinical staff.

To be responsible for the performance, monitoring and evaluation of a broad range of complex activities, including service delivery of analysis within the Immunology department, ensuring acceptable turnaround times are achieved.

Chair the performance review meetings covering quality control procedures and external quality assurance schemes, for the analyses performed in the above sections.

To be responsible for the initiation, organisation, reporting, interpretation and data storage of external quality assurance schemes making technical and scientific assessments of method and instrument performance.

To assist the clinical colleagues with the responsibility for dealing with matters of a managerial and professional nature, relating to clinical scientists within the department.

To chair the meetings of the Immunology laboratory in partnership with the service lead. Meeting composed of clinical and biomedical scientists, involving policy/organisational changes and improvements.

To represent the clinical scientists at the departmental meetings of the Directorate, chaired by the Clinical Director and providing an executive lead for the department.

To initiate, undertake and collaborate in funded research, development and audit and support clinical trials in the field of Immunology.

To seek and obtain funding for research and development projects carried out in the department, at a local and national level. To advise on research projects undertaken by clinical, laboratory and other staff.

To assist in the training of HSST, trainee clinical scientists and clinical scientists within the department.

To assist and participate in the professional development programmes for clinical scientists within the department.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

First degree or assessed equivalent level of knowledge and expertise
Masters degree or assessed equivalent level of knowledge and expertise in the relevant speciality
Full fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath/FRCPath)
Demonstration of appropriate CPD
Registered as a clinical scientist with HCPC

Desirable criteria

Relevant PhD or DClinSci

Experience

Essential criteria

To have completed a substantial period in post as a Registered Clinical Scientist with a demonstrable period at advanced practitioner level
To have developed an expertise in one or more specialised analytical or clinical areas
To have attained a good record of achievement in research, development and audit activities, through presentations at national or international conferences and publication in peer reviewed journals

Desirable criteria

To have attained status as a national or international expert or advisor

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Good knowledge of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
Good basic knowledge in other areas of Pathology

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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.