Job summary
- Main area
- Pathology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (core hours of work Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm. Weekend working 1 in 4 from 9am to 5pm and bank holidays.)
- Job ref
- 470-24-0002-AN
- Employer
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Hospital
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £22,383
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pathology Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 2
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, highly adaptable individuals to join our reception team at St. Mary’s Hospital Microbiology Department.
More than 10,000 samples are received and processed each year by the Microbiology department. Each samples requires expert scientific know-how to process, with the aim of detecting and identifying pathogens suspected of causing infection and disease. You role will be in supporting and facilitating these investigations.
Main duties of the job
You will primarily be working at the reception area in the Microbiology Department. Duties will include sample receipting, data entry, answering telephone enquiries, house keeping and administrative duties as required by the microbiology team. You will be required to work as part of a team and liaise with your colleagues on matters pertaining to day to day activities within Microbiology.
Working for our organisation
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties:
· Receipt of pathology specimens via Vacuum Tube System or by hand
· Sorting of pathology specimens as required ensuring details on request form and specimen match and date and time stamp
· Allocation of laboratory accession number to microbiology samples and distribution of specimens to appropriate areas of the laboratory.
· Liaising with other Trust staff e.g. doctors in clinics, patient transport service.
· Entry of patient details and tests required onto laboratory computer system; checking information with requestors if discrepancies are noted.
· Collection and sorting of laboratory reports for distribution, answer telephone enquiries and transmit laboratory results by telephone.
· Receipt of microbiology parcels delivered to Pathology.
· Packaging and delivery of dirty laundry to collection point (for Pathology) and sorting, distribution and storage of clean laundry (for Pathology).
· Disposal of clinical waste in microbiology.
· Filing of laboratory paperwork.
· Daily, weekly and monthly house keeping duties
Receipt, unload and store supplies, reagents and consumables as they arrive.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Keith Thomas
- Job title
- Acting Head of Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01983 534820
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