Bank Medical Laboratory Assistant Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England
Job description
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.
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated individual to complement our existing MLA team.
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 WexhamPark Hospital .
Refer to attached JD and Person Specification attached for main responsibilities
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 threecore 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.
Clinical1. To undertake those procedures necessary for sample preparation and storage, including use of pipettes to separate or add solution to samples.
2. Prepare sample containers and maintain stocks of laboratory consumables.
3. The use and maintenance of all relevant equipment including centrifuges, necessary for the preparation of samples and requests.
4. To assist in the training of new staff.
5. To follow laboratory procedures to condemn inadequate or mislabelled samples.
6. To arrange preparation, packaging and transportation for those tests to be sent to other laboratories for analysis.
7. To ensure samples for clinical trials are processed and stored appropriately.
Refer to attached JD and Person Specification for main responsibilities
