Band 4 Medical Laboratory Assistant Team Leader

Job summary

Are you looking to progress and develop 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 to recruit confident, enthusiastic, forward thinking and highly motivated Team Leader for the Specimen Reception Department. The right candidate will be able to embrace changes, lead a large team in a busy environment, demonstrate a flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure with a high degree of accuracy.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in England, serving the populations of Birmingham and Solihull. The Trust is composed of four main hospital sites: Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB), Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Solihull Hospital (HGS).

The ideal candidate must be computer literate and have relevant experience in providing leadership/supervisory. Experience of working in a Clinical Laboratory within a Hospital environment and using NHS systems is advantageous. The successful candidate for this role will have excellent attention to detail, confident communication skills, strong supervisory/leadership skills and be motivated towards service improvement.

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 candidate will perform Team Leader administrative duties such as Day to day line management and operational responsibility for the Specimen Reception Team. This will involve first line sickness monitoring and management, appraisal completion, annual leave approval, ensuring mandatory training is within compliance, workload allocation and delegation, organising and reallocating work where situation change due to variation to the workload and staffing availability, reviewing work performance, support recruitment panels, planning and organising rota's, audits. Technical duties such as recording specimen details, traceability, recording and updating information on laboratory system, housekeeping, 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, answering telephone enquiries, sorting reports, centrifuging samples

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, early, lates, as part of the rota. The roles will be based at either Heartlands or Queen Elizabeth hospitals mainly with expectations to work cross sites and weekends depending on service needs

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

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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