Job summary
- Main area
- Cellular Pathology
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-SL0310
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £24,008 - £25,553 N/A
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Medical Laboratory Assistant
Band 3
Job overview
Senior Medical Laboratory Assistant (Band 3)
Welcome to Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS). One of the country’s largest, most respected and welcoming NHS Pathology networks. Our focus on clinical excellence means that we are the perfect place for you to progress as a professional. Our friendly, supportive, open culture makes this a unique place to support great patient care.
Main duties of the job
The Cellular Pathology department has a vacancy for a Medical Laboratory Assistant in the Histology section at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.
We are looking for someone who has a Laboratory background, has great computer skills, and is competent with data entry and able to prioritise requests coming into the department.
Good communication skills and knowledge of the Data Protection Act are essential.
This role will involve working in a laboratory environment handling patient samples which require sending away for specialist testing.
This is a demanding but rewarding role offering a vital service to the Trust and directly impacts patient care pathways.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Cellular Pathology department has a vacancy for a Medical Laboratory Assistant in the Histology section at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.
We are looking for someone who has a Laboratory background, has great computer skills, and is competent with data entry and able to prioritise requests coming into the department.
Good communication skills and knowledge of the Data Protection Act are essential.
This role will involve working in a laboratory environment handling patient samples which require sending away for specialist testing.
This is a demanding but rewarding role offering a vital service to the Trust and directly impacts patient care pathways.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good basic education to include GCSE O Levels / A Levels or NVQ level 3 or IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 1)
- Willing to undergo relevant training.
Desirable criteria
- ECDL
- Basic educational qualification in mathematics
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to understand and follow Standard Operating Procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a relevant routine laboratory
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Possess basic IT skills
- Ability to write clearly
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations
- Able to move between laboratories and sites as required
- Understands need to work to deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to prioritise tasks and organise daily work
- Confidence within parameters of role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephen Brown
- Job title
- Chief Biomedical Scientist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118322 5273
- Additional information
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Stephen Brown on 01183 225273 or Amanda Babington on 01183 228201
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