Band 3 Medical Laboratory Assistant - Specimen Reception

Job summary

Are you looking to progress your career in a fast paced and supportive working environment? We have an exciting opportunity in our dynamic Specimen Reception Department for the Pathology Directorate. We are seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our large and friendly Specimen Reception Department. Successful candidates are expected to have excellent attention to detail, good data entry skills, good team player and able to take own initiative. Training will be provided on all internal systems and you can expect to receive a full induction and ongoing support within your new role.

UHB NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in England. The Trust is composed of four main Hospital Sites; Queen Elizabeth (QE) Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull (HGS).

Specimen Reception Department receives, prepares and ensures that all samples are logged into laboratory information systems for their onward journey within the laboratory complex. Experience of working in Specimen Reception is desirable: this will enable the candidate to have more thorough understanding of the role and the expectations of the role. The workload will be varied and can be challenging. The successful candidate will work as a valued member of the team, able to multi task in an efficient manner, maintaining a caring and helpful attitude, working alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team that constitute our department and continuing to provide high quality and life changing care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

Specimen Reception is a fast-paced, high output environment covering all four sites; Queen Elizabeth, Heartlands, and Good Hope over a 24 hour period and core hours at Solihull.

Successful candidates will perform laboratory administration duties such as recording specimen details, traceability, recording and updating information on the laboratory system. Technical duties such as performing housekeeping duties, monitoring and recording of equipment, disposal of clinical specimens and waste as per laboratory protocol, filing and scanning of paper and electronic records in accordance with laboratory standard operating procedures. A good understanding of overall specimen reception department and excellent data entry skills would be paramount to this role.

The role is a full time role of 37.5 hours a week. You will be required to cover a range of shifts, which will include weekends, Bank Holidays, lates (12:00-20:00 & 14:00-22:00) and nights (21:45-07:45), as part of the rota.

This is an excellent and exciting opportunity if you are willing to embark on a challenge and wish to join a professional team

Please read the full Job description and Person Specification

For further information regarding these exciting opportunities, please contact: Maria Aslam, Specimen Reception Lead, on Maria.aslam@uhb.nhs.uk

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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