Up to £55,000 DOE

Job Title: Learning and Development Manager (Scientific)

Location: Central London (The Halo Building, 1 Mabledon Place, WC1H 9AX

Salary range: Up to £55,000 DOE

About us:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

About the role:

We are delighted to announce that we are seeking an experienced L&D Manager (Scientific) to join our team at Sonic Healthcare UK. This is an exciting opportunity for a laboratory trainer with a strong desire to support employee growth and development and are keen to join a company that prioritises training and development.

About us, the organisation:

Sonic Healthcare UK is a pathology provider which support both the NHS and private practice and employers over 2500 employees working across a range of scientific and corporate departments.

Our purpose is to deliver medically led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across a country wide laboratory network.

The L &D team:

The L&D team sit within HR and is a growing team focused on the supporting development of all our employees across the organisation which encompasses both a scientific and corporate (non-scientific) workforce.

We have a successful Totara Learning Management System delivering eLearning in addition to a range of live interactive workshop courses. We recently launched our Sonic Training Academy which annually recruits a cohort of apprentices to complete a Biomedical Science degree and associated professional experience to achieve HCPC registration.

We publish an annual education report which showcases our achievements across the organisation.

The role:

As L&D Manager (Scientific), you will work with the Head of Learning and Development and the wider L&D team in the provision of scientific training. This is a new role to support our expanding organisation and offers the chance for an individual to inform and guide new training initiatives in line with business goals.

A copy of the job description is available and one of the areas we’ll look to focus on initially is oversight and management of all IBMS portfolios across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in delivering and managing laboratory training including support with both IBMS registration and specialist portfolios.

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities - supporting professional development
• Annual salary review - No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
• Discounted gym membership - we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan - cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement - 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance - providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme - supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme - interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox - Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme - company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 23 days rising to 28 days after 5 years service
• Flexible working hours - 40 hours standard working week

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OTHER MEDIA

Vacancy ID :

030511

Closing Date :

31-Mar-2025

Contact Person :

Wendy Leversuch

Contact Email :

wendy.leversuch@hslpathology.com