Senior Medical Laboratory Assistant, WRH - Worcester, United Kingdom - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated individual to joinour friendly team to allow us to provide a high quality and efficientMicrobiology diagnostic service for our patients and service users. You will beworking alongside a team of Medical laboratory assistants, Associate Practitioners and Biomedical Scientists.

The post holder will be working hours/week within thecurrent shift systems; weekdays 09:00-17:00, late shift 12-20:00,weekends and bank holidays are currently rostered 08:00 16:00 core hours,plus a night shift service

The Microbiology Department receives approximately 690,000specimens per year running approx. million tests. The department currentlyuses the Clinsys Winpath computer LIMS system and iPassport QMS.

This is a modern well equipped laboratory, with a range ofautomation including the Biomerieux MALDI-TOF, Vitek 2, and Virtuo Blood cultureanalysers, the Sedimax Urine analyser, Mast Urisystem, DS2, VIDAS 3, COBAS 6800, Diasorin Liaison, QiagenNeumodx ,Cepheid GeneXpert and Biofire Filmarray.

The Department has UKAS accreditation. It is approved bythe IBMS as a training laboratory. The Department has a proven track record intraining and is committed to further education and personal development ofstaff.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit to thelaboratory contact Mrs Ruksarna Hussein-Jackson Deputy Laboratory Manager on

Main duties of the job

Main Duties include:

Receipt and sortingof samples that arrive in the department

Supporting the roleof the Biomedical Scientists (BMS) within the Microbiology department.

Pre-analyticalpreparation of specimens.

Data entry of patientinformation/request forms onto the laboratory information systems.

Telephone enquiriesand results service

Assisting withkeeping the laboratory clean and tidy, autoclaving and housekeeping duties.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities

As an MLA the post holder will be responsiblefor processing patient specimens for biomedical testing and maintaining allrecords involved in the diagnostic pathway after receiving appropriate trainingand ability to demonstrate competence. This includes: receiving, sorting,labelling and preparing specimens; resolving issues such as mislabelled ormissing samples, performing reception duties, data entry, dealing withtelephone enquiries and relaying test results to clinicians and otherhealthcare workers, performing general housekeeping duties.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable