Medical Laboratory Assistant, Sample Reception - 60 Whitfield St, Central London London, England
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
Full Time
London, England
23310 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
From £23,310 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 Permanent Part Time Medical Laboratory Assistant to join our Sample Reception team, based at 60 Whitfield Street/UCLH Site, working Monday – Friday evening shifts.
Duties will include but not be limited to:
- The receipt, identification and pre-analytical preparation & storage of samples and request forms for various service users.
- Triaging and despatching all samples to correct locations, ensuring an accurate audit trail via the tube tracker system.
- Referral of samples to third party laboratories.
- Working with the RRL Helpdesk team, engaging with clients and service users via telephone and email.
No prior experience is required but the successful candidate will have good computer skills, good verbal & written communication skills, work well in a team and a flexible approach to both workload & task allocation.
The laboratory operates a 24/7 service so the successful candidate will be expected to participate in shifts to cover this period, according to departmental needs
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 :
020351
Closing Date :
11-Sep-2023
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
www.hslpathology.com
London, United Kingdom
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