Tissue Bank Biomedical Assistant - COVID-19 in Coventry

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is one of the UK’s leading teaching Trusts, providing acute and specialist services to a population of over 1 million. We have a strong reputation for innovation, clinical research, teaching and high-quality patient care and are the principal teaching hospital for Warwick Medical School.

We employ over 9000 staff, have a turnover of £660 million and have 1.7 million patient contacts a year. The Trust comprises of two busy hospitals with over 1,300 beds and 32 operating theatres, running clinical services from a number of other sites.

Our vision is to be a national and international leader in healthcare; our values-driven organisational development programme and our UHCWi methodology developed through our partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute are key to us achieving this vision by focussing on improving services via lean methodology.

Arden Tissue Bank Biomedical Assistant.

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, flexible individual to contribute to on-going Covid 19 research in a joint post shared between Coventry & Warwickshire Pathology Services and Arden Tissue Bank.

The role will allow the successful applicant to gain experience of a busy HTA licenced Biobank and witness the role clinical diagnostic laboratories play in research. Applications are open to candidates with appropriate laboratory experience and an interest in research.

The primary duties of the biomedical assistant will be to assist with collection, collation and distribution of Covid 19 samples as part of the NIHR funded Covid Digital Collaborative Project. This is a co-operative venture between four Midlands based NHS Trusts to collect a research rich cohort of Covid 19 positive samples, with detailed anonymised data drawn from patient records across each of the four Trusts.

The candidate will also be expected to assist with the smooth running of a high profile, busy biobank, and help ensure Trust wide compliance with the Human Tissue Act 2006.

The role will involve:

• Identification of relevant patients samples surplus to diagnostic need.
• Receiving & processing samples from other sites.
• Logging data from samples onto Tissue Bank systems.
• Anonymisation of samples.
• Co-ordinating and supplying project related materials to applicants to the biobank- both commercial and academic.

The post-holder will be employed by the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

For informal enquiries please contact Mr Sean James on 02476 965248 or e-mail sean.james@uhcw.nhs.uk or Emma Braybrook emma.braybrook@uhcw.nhs.uk