Support Worker London
Job description
We are looking for top talent to join the UK’s leading and fastest and growing pathology company – a scientific organisation with a clinical purpose. Working in partnership with our service partners, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital, Princess Royal University Hospital and NHS Hospital Trusts, we aim to set the standard for the future of pathology. Support Worker (Waste Management) in Bacteriology – Part time Band 2 equivalent, at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts in specialist teaching. King’s has various divisions including Neurosciences, Haematology, Cancer and Cardiovascular sciences, where there are unlimited opportunities to develop and perfect your career. Over the last 170 years, King’s has delivered nothing but world class service to all its patients from deprived communities as well as some of the wealthiest in London. A little about the lab and us This is an exciting opportunity for a support worker to join the Synnovis Bacteriology team providing a specialist service for a range of complex patients. You will be joining an exceptional and dedicated team who always go the extra mile for the benefit of our patients. As a support worker, you will be responsible for housekeeping duties such as safe waste handling and disposal using autoclaves, laboratory cleaning, maintaining bench stocks, receiving deliveries and some data entry. We are a progressive, UKAS ISO 15189:2012 accredited service who provide a comprehensive range of investigations which include bacteriology, parasitology, mycology and infection surveillance for King’s College Hospital and the local community. The Bacteriology Department receives over 350,000 samples per year. The laboratory core working hours are 08.54 -17.00 Monday to Friday. The successful candidate will be required to work 20hrs per week (4hrs per day). You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The Synnovis Way Development programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding / support for advanced qualifications. Through our Innovation Accelerator Fund, you can apply for finance to get that new innovative scientific project off the ground, and participate with the wider scientific community through symposiums, conferences and other peer group meetings. We are fully committed to continued professional and personal development and will support you in achieving your full potential. The Bacteriology Department is an IBMS training approved laboratory for the Certificate of Achievement, Registration and Specialist portfolios. Further training and development opportunities exist through The Synnovis Way Development programme , the Scientific Learning and Development Fund and the Synnovis Academy through which you can receive funding / support for advanced qualifications. At Synnovis, we are currently shaping the future of pathology services by creating a world-leading Hub and Spoke pathology network with our NHS partners. A large part of this modernisation will involve moving 70% of our services to a purpose built, state of the art Hub laboratory in the heart of London. For now, the job you are applying for will be based at one of our hospital sites however, from 1 April 2024 our people and services will start to move to our Hub laboratory in Blackfriars, Southwark, SE1, with some work remaining in refurbished essential services laboratories across our hospital network, focusing on the rapid turnover of urgent tests. Please do ask your recruiting manager if you wish to find out more. Synnovis is a pathology partnership between SYNLAB UK and Ireland, and the NHS, including sites, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver and transform pathology services across South East London. The partnership provides services to 1.7 million people living in South East London, as well as to hundreds of thousands of patients from outside the region who use local healthcare services. The partnership provides diagnostics, testing and digital pathology for hospital trusts, GP services and other healthcare providers. KCH King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts in specialist teaching. King’s has various divisions including Neurosciences, Haematology, Cancer and Cardiovascular sciences, where there are unlimited opportunities to develop and perfect your career. Over the last 170 years, King’s has delivered nothing but world class service to all its patients from deprived communities as well as some of the wealthiest in London.
