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Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Laboratory Genetics Service, Band 9
Permanent, 37.5 hrs per week
£105,635 to £110,468
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic Consultant Clinical Scientist to join Laboratory Genetics as Head of Service. The laboratory forms part of the West of Scotland Centre for Genomic Medicine and provides a high quality cytogenetic and molecular diagnostics service to the West of Scotland, population 3 million, and to the whole of Scotland through the Scottish Genetics Laboratories Consortium and the Scottish Molecular Pathology Consortium. The laboratory is the largest of its type in Scotland and is based in the state of the art Laboratory Medicine building at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
The post holder will join our team of >115 managers, scientific and technical staff and will work closely with the senior management within Laboratory Genetics and Laboratory Medicine/ Diagnostic Directorate to strategically manage the service. They will have overall responsibility for the laboratory’s budget (£7.1 million) and will provide expert scientific and managerial leadership at a local, regional and national level. They will work closely with the Scottish Genomics Leadership Group and National Service Division to deliver the key objectives of a national Scottish genomics policy. They will drive innovation and translational developments for genomics, working with academic and industrial partners when doing so.
It is essential that the post holder is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or an alternative appropriate body, has an upper second or first class honors degree in a relevant scientific subject and be in possession of a higher qualification such as FRCPath part 1 or part 2, a PhD or equivalent doctoral level experience. You should have significant experience of management within a diagnostic genomics laboratory and have experience of working with other professional groups including NHS commissioners and government.
The shift pattern for this post is Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm.
For more information please contact; Robert Gardiner, General Manager, Laboratory Medicine on 0141 354 9407
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Pack
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