Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Laboratory Assistant FPH SR
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday to Friday 10:00-1500 or 15:00-20:00. No other shifts available. Possibility for extra weekly hours (up to 37.5).
- Hours
- Part time - 25 hours per week (Monday to Friday 10:00-1500 or 15:00-20:00. Applicant must be able to work night shifts if or when required.)
- Job ref
- 151-SL0298
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £23,575 per annum pro rata INCL HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Laboratory Assistant (Mon-Fri)
Band 2
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual with excellent interpersonal skills to become part of our team within the Frimley Park Hospital Pathology Specimen Reception Department.
While no formal experience or qualifications are required, excellent typing skills, an eye for detail and a positive approach are absolutely essential.
Please note: this role is not suitable for recent graduates looking for progression into the Biomedical Scientist role.
Main duties of the job
You will need to be organised, yet flexible and a good team player, yet comfortable working on your own; in addition to a friendly and approachable personality. Your role will be varied, supporting the work of Blood Science duties including the receipt, sorting and preparation of patient’s blood, bodily fluids and other general laboratory and clerical duties.
PURPOSE OF JOB:
To work with other members of staff to provide an efficient and effective service to all users of the Pathology department. To ensure the rapid and timely turnaround of Pathology samples by receiving, labelling and entering onto the Pathology computer system.
The Pathology Laboratory is situated in Frimley Park Hospital and part of Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) which is a successful and progressive merged pathology network which is a contractual joint venture between Ashford & St Peter’s, Frimley Health, Royal Berkshire and Royal Surrey County Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts. It provides services to NHS Acute Trusts, CCGs, academic centres, and the private healthcare sector undertaking approximately 20 million tests per year serving a population of 2 million. We provide a service 7 days a week.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Applicant must be able to work night shifts when/if required.
- To maintain good communication with the Specimen Reception Team Leader in order to minimise errors and maximise efficiency through agreed priorities and to achieve the aim of completing all work within the working day.
- To maintain a close working relationship with senior laboratory staff.
- To assist in the electronic production and distribution of Pathology reports by post or fax.
- To deal with telephone enquires directed to Specimen Reception to give Pathology results for Haematology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, where appropriate and to re-direct calls to the various laboratories.
- Verbal contact with external laboratories on those tests not performed in-house.
- To inform relevant requesting Consultants, Doctors or nursing staff over the phone and face-to-face when incorrect sample or information is received.
- To provide information to all users on the appropriate specimen collection procedure, under the guidelines of the Pathology Handbook.
- To provide information to patients over the telephone and face-to-face regarding 24 hour urine collection. To also refer patients requesting results to the appropriate requesting clinician.
- To receive all visitors to the laboratory in a professional and courteous manner.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Flexibility with working hours
Desirable criteria
- Basic Knowledge of Medical Terminology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good keyboard skills
- Experience of working in a busy environment
- Good team player
Desirable criteria
- A can do attitude to work
- Ability to work on own
- Experience of working in a specimen reception department in pathology
- Experience working with Laboratory applications Winpath, Enterprise etc.
Flexibility
Essential criteria
- Able to work night shifts if/when required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eugenio Barreiro Neves
- Job title
- Support Services Site Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01276604304
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