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Job summary

Main area
Specimen Reception
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
151-SL0359-K
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wexham Park Hospital
Town
Slough
Salary
£24,873 per annum INCL HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/02/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Band 2

Job overview

Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services - (A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust , Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust).

Are you looking for a MLA position with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the UK? You will be based at Wexham Park Hospital.

PLEASE NOTE:  This role is not suitable for graduates looking for progression into the biomedical scientist role.

Main duties of the job

PURPOSE OF JOB:

To assist 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.

This merged department provides a service for both The Royal Surrey County Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital. The post holder will be primarily based at Frimley Park Hospital but may occasionally be asked to work at the Royal Surrey County Park Hospital.

Essential qualities expected are efficiency, being well organised, having good communication skills and attention to detail. Good keyboard skills are desirable. In addition, you should be a reliable individual who is able to demonstrate good practical skills and work as part of a team.

You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills . Support and encouragement will be given for career development.

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 behaviors 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

  • To undertake those procedures necessary for sample preparation and storage, including use of pipettes to separate or add solution to samples.
  • Prepare sample containers and maintain stocks of laboratory consumables.
  • The use and maintenance of all relevant equipment including centrifuges, necessary for the preparation of samples and requests.
  • To participate, when required, in the performance of simple designated tests, including those performed on Point of Care analysers.
  • To assist in the training of new staff.
  • To follow laboratory procedures to condemn inadequate or mislabelled samples.
  • To arrange preparation, packaging and transportation for those tests to be sent to other laboratories for analysis.
  • To ensure samples for clinical trials are processed and stored appropriately.
  • Refer to attached JD and Person Specification for main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • O’ level / GCSE standard English and maths
Desirable criteria
  • Basic knowledge of biology & chemistry
  • RSA II
  • Medical Terminology
  • Understanding of basic health and safety principles

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Friendly and interactive in working group
  • Ability to work in environment with frequent exposure to body fluids, biological and chemical hazards
  • Effective and enthusiastic team member

interview

Essential criteria
  • maths and english
Desirable criteria
  • keyboard experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerWe Work Flexibly

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. We would advise that you complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anita Adolphus
Job title
Site Lead Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01753 634566
Additional information

For further details/informal visits please contact the Site Lead Manager

  "Previous applicants need not apply"

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