lab assistant London, England
Health Services Laboratory
Full Time
London, England
12432 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
From £12,432 DOE
About us:
Health Services Laboratories (HSL) is a progressive partnership between The Doctors Laboratory, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Free London) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. We combine The Doctors Laboratory’s long standing, specialist pathology expertise with the Royal Free London and UCLH’s internationally recognised heritage of continual research, development and academic excellence. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
About the role:
An opportunity has arisen for a Part Time, Medical Laboratory Assistant in our Infection Sciences department at 1 Mabledon Place.
Main duties will be assisting in the daily running of the laboratory section to which you have been assigned within the Department of Microbiology, assisting in the performance of the routine diagnostic analytical work of the department as directed and to provide general support in other areas of the Laboratory.
Other responsibilities will include booking and receiving specimens for microbiological investigations, preparing specimens for laboratory testing according to defined protocols, maintenance of laboratory equipment and ensuring reagent, stocks and other laboratory-based requirements are kept up to date.
Medical Laboratory Assistants are also required to discuss ambiguous test requests with senior scientists or clinicians and to answer enquiries from clinicians and other health care professionals based at hospitals and in the community.
Part time positions within infection sciences offer excellent opportunities for those hoping to pursue a future career in Biomedical Science or for anyone wishing to experience working in a busy diagnostic laboratory. We encourage staff to come forth with requests for training and career progression and offer internal seminars from both lab and clinical staff. The department also has a growing online repertoire of media and educational material available to staff.
The successful applicant will be expected to cover the hours from 5pm to 9pm Monday to Friday, working a 4 hours shift 1:4 Saturdays. The 4 hours on Saturday will be returned as time in lieu, which can be taken off one evening in the following week.
If you require further information about this position, please contact Alan Spratt by emailing [email protected]
At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- Training and development opportunities – including the funding of Undergraduate and Masters Degrees and IBMS Specialist Portfolios for Biomedical Scientists
- Annual performance related salary review
**• No banding restrictions: **As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling
- Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
- Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
- Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with years of service
- Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days annual leave
- Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week. With a variety of working patterns available, options to review working flexibly will always be considered.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.
PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OTHER MEDIA
Vacancy ID :
019469
Closing Date :
05-Jul-2023
Health Services Laboratory
www.hslpathology.com
London, United Kingdom
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