Medical Laboratory Assistant, Microbiology Department - Northwick Park Hospital Harrow, England
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
Full Time
Harrow, England
22900 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
From £22,900 DOE
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:
An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Laboratory Assistant position in the Microbiology team at Northwick Park Hospital.
The department processes in excess of 320,000 samples per annum arising from a wide range of clinical situations and specialities. You will be working in a refurbished, well equipped laboratory, with advanced diagnostic and IT systems. An interesting and varied workload, together with new automated solutions within the department, will allow you to gain unique and valuable experience of modern microbiology practice. The laboratory is situated in Harrow, and offers a pleasant and spacious working environment and excellent staff facilities.
The role involves collecting, sorting and testing samples, registering specimens in WinPath, answering telephone enquiries, validating results prior to authorisation, use of Kiestra laboratory automation, Bactec, Phoenix, Sedimax, Urisystem, Dynex DS2, GeneXpert and EntericBio analysers. General laboratory duties such as: maintaining equipment, stock and daily housekeeping.
Flexible working patterns are in operation, and you will be required to participate in a seven day rota comprising early, core, late and night shifts.
If you require further information about this position, please contact Shashin Kava on 020 8869 5065. ([email protected]).
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.
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 :
017404
Closing Date :
19-Feb-2023
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
www.hslpathology.com
London, United Kingdom
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