Medical Laboratory Assistant; Night

Medical Laboratory Assistant (Night-Shift) - Sample Reception, Croxley Park, Watford

Croxley Park, Watford

Up to £39,099.20 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance plus unsocial working hours allowance

Job Title: Medical Laboratory Assistant (Night-Shift)

Department: Sample Reception

Location: Croxley Park,The Hive, Hatters Lane, Watford WD18 8YR

Contract /

Hours:

Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary range: Up to £39,099.20 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance plus unsocial working hours allowance

About us:

Sonic Healthcare
is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world
99s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK
encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts.

Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

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 WC1H 9AX
, 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 full time NIGHT shift

Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) in our Hub laboratory sample reception team. The Croxley Park Hub is a new HSL Hub laboratory that has been designed to provide a comprehensive pathology service for Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) GP, Community providers, and Hospitals. The Hub offers state of the art processes, analytics, and pre-analytics.

The successful candidate will join our team of dedicated lab support staff and biomedical scientists in delivering a high-quality pathology service. We are looking for someone who is positive, proactive and attention to detail is essential. Previous experience would be helpful, however full training will be provided for all work performed.

This post offers the opportunity to broaden your skills, knowledge, and experience in a busy pathology sample reception, providing a 24/7 Haematology, Biochemistry, and Infectious Sciences service. The Hub when fully operational and following transition of all sites in the HWE Network, will process 15,000 samples per day.

The main duties focus on all sample handling aspects of diagnostic laboratory work from specimen receipt, triage, data entry, pre-analytical preparation and tracking to analytical department. The role is multi-disciplined, involving the development of knowledge across wide variety of specimen types and testing requirements, covering blood sciences and infection sciences. The successful candidate will provide support with daily laboratory duties, maintenance of equipment, contributing to the teams Quality Management System by participating in audits and incidents investigations.

The Hub is not yet operational and as a new laboratory the ideal candidate will need to be adaptable to a changing environment, committed to service excellence and have a genuine desire for continued personal and professional development.

The HWE Hub will operate a 24/7 service, the successful candidate will be rostered to work 3 nights shifts per week to cover their 37.5hrs. The post holder will initially work core hours whilst in training but required, once trained and…