Medical Laboratory Assistant, Sample Reception - Royal Free Hospital London, England
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
Full Time
London, England
22900 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
From £22,900 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 exciting opportunity has arisen for a Full Time, MLA to join our Rapid Response Laboratory at The Royal Free Hospital.
Main duties will include assisting with the daily running of the laboratory section to which you have been assigned within the department, to assist in the performance of the routine diagnostic analytical work of the department as directed and to maintain the highest professional and technical standards in the department.
The successful candidate will prepare, store and retrieve when necessary frozen aliquots, 24hr urine aliquots, microbiology and routine blood samples, alert the appropriate departments on receipt of urgent samples, frozen samples and samples requiring special handling and to be familiar with the laboratory computer systems, including confident use of the test/client libraries, HSL intranet and referral database during data entry.
You will be expected to work 24/7 shifts in the sample reception department.
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
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 :
015464
Closing Date :
20-Feb-2023
Health Services Laboratories (HSL)
www.hslpathology.com
London, United Kingdom
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