NHS
Component Development - Principal Scientist
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Job Description
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- Postgraduate degree or relevant professional qualification with significant practical laboratory experience.
- Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
- High level of expertise in relevant specialism, ideally demonstrated by publications.
- High level of proficiency in relevant specialised laboratory techniques/ environments.
- In depth understanding of NHS and wider healthcare research community.
- To have successfully led and completed a major laboratory-based project.
- Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- In depth knowledge of Haematology/Transfusion Science.
- Extensive experience in working in a research laboratory.
- Supervisory experience.
- Postgraduate degree or relevant professional qualification with significant practical laboratory experience.
- Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
- High level of expertise in relevant specialism, ideally demonstrated by publications.
- High level of proficiency in relevant specialised laboratory techniques/ environments.
- In depth understanding of NHS and wider healthcare research community.
- To have successfully led and completed a major laboratory-based project.
- Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
- In depth knowledge of Haematology/Transfusion Science.
- Extensive experience in working in a research laboratory.
- Supervisory experience.
Job summary
We have an exciting opening for a postgraduate/postdoctoral scientist, preferably in the field of immunology, to join our team. You will be part of a large transformational project in partnership with industry to develop new plasma and platelet components that can be transfused to any patient. As the technical work package lead you will be required to conduct research and coordinate controlled investigations of blood component quality. You will be required to initiate, plan, and direct such investigations supervising the analysis and interpretation of results, and ensuring their accurate and timely dissemination in journals and reports. You will be responsible for the line management of staff working with and to the translational research programme lead. The NHS Blood and Transplant Component Development Laboratory is an internationally recognised laboratory based at Cambridge, alongside Addenbrookes Hospital on the world-renowned Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The component development laboratory performs a wide range of research and development projects to improve the quality and safety of blood components for transfusion.
Main duties of the job
The role is to lead a technical work package within the Universal Components project team to develop novel plasma and platelet components that can be translated to any patient. The project team is a collaboration between NHSBT and an industrial partner. You will be responsible for delivering the technical work package working with and to the Translational Research Programme Lead. You will coordinate all the technical activities and collaborate with an industrial partner and other NHSBT researchers. You will evaluate prototypes for antibody removal and blood component quality as well as other research activities. You will disseminate research findings both inside and outside the organisation, attending project meetings as necessary. You will be responsible for training less experienced staff, students, trainees and researchers. You will be responsible for the line management of staff, working with and to the Translational Research Programme Lead.
About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Details
Date posted
12 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
2 years
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
006500
Job locations
NHSBT
Long Road
Cambridge
CB2 0PT
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Additional informationCertificate of Sponsorship
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Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
NHSBT
Long Road
Cambridge
CB2 0PT
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
NHSBT
Long Road
Cambridge
CB2 0PT
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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