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Job overview

We are looking for a friendly, accommodating, enthusiastic and motivated team member with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to provide clerical support to a specialised laboratory providing cancer testing. You will be part of a small team providing the clerical service for laboratory testing for patients across Kent and Medway. You will be involved in all aspects of the service from sample arrival to result dispatch, including reception, booking in, result entry and report generation. A working knowledge of MS Excel, Word and Outlook is required as you will use all three on a daily basis

The Cellular Pathology department, which Molecular Pathology is part of, provides diagnostic Histology, and Molecular Pathology services for both Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells as well as Medway Maritime Hospital and Darent Valley Hospital. The molecular pathology department has recently 
become the Cellular Pathology Genomic Centre for Kent and is implementing this in 2024-25.   

Molecular pathology carries out a wide range of genomic investigations on samples including biopsies and various specialist surgical specimens to determine the treatment course for Lung Breast And Colonic Cancer.

Applications for the position of Health Care Support Worker are invited from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to assist in routine office duties. 

Please be aware this post is NOT suitable for Trainee Biomedical Scientists 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist with the day to day administration of the Molecular Pathology department at the Maidstone site. Printing Email requests, entering tests on to the Laboratory information system, sending results, completing spreadsheets for internal records. See below for a full list of duties. 

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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