About us:
The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) is the largest and most successful independent pathology organisation in the UK.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital based laboratories across the country. 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:
The Cleveland Clinic, on Grosvenor Place close to Victoria Station, provides high level healthcare, which started in 2021 with outpatients work, and with the installation of the TDL Pathology Laboratory service at the Grosvenor Place site.
Using our robust business continuity relationships and experience with other similar TDL private hospital based laboratories, TDL provides training and competency of suitable candidates at other London locations, coming together as a team to contribute to validation and verification requirements of equipment onsite, supported by the TDL Quality management group and senior TDL staff.
The opportunity has therefore arisen for an experienced MLA wishing to work in the laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic. This is a multi-disciplinary role that includes Biochemistry, Haematology and Blood Transfusion.
Working as part of a small team, this is an excellent opportunity to further develop your skills, knowledge and experience within this multidisciplinary laboratory. As the laboratory runs a 24/7 service, there will be a requirement to participate in an overnight shift rota.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a proven interest in quality with a view to maintaining UKAS and MHRA compliance. You will have overall responsibility for all aspects of the provision of a safe and reliable service to the Cleveland Clinic. Duties will also comprise the routine operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of various analysers including Roche, Sysmex and Griffols instruments.
At TDL 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 service
- Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days annual leave
- Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week
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.
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