Medical Laboratory Assistant

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services - (A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust , Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Are you looking for a MLA position with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the UK? You will be based at Wexham Park Hospital.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is not suitable for graduates looking for progression into the biomedical scientist role.

To assist with other members of staff to provide an efficient and effective service to all users of the Pathology department. To ensure the rapid and timely turnaround of Pathology samples by receiving, labelling and entering onto the Pathology computer system.
This merged department provides a service for both The Royal Surrey County Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital. The post holder will be primarily based at Frimley Park Hospital but may occasionally be asked to work at the Royal Surrey County Park Hospital.
Essential qualities expected are efficiency, being well organised, having good communication skills and attention to detail. Good keyboard skills are desirable. In addition, you should be a reliable individual who is able to demonstrate good practical skills and work as part of a team.
You must be keen to embrace new ways of working and develop your knowledge and skills . Support and encouragement will be given for career development.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
To undertake those procedures necessary for sample preparation and storage, including use of pipettes to separate or add solution to samples.
Prepare sample containers and maintain stocks of laboratory consumables.
The use and maintenance of all relevant equipment including centrifuges, necessary for the preparation of samples and requests.
To participate, when required, in the performance of simple designated tests, including those performed on Point of Care analysers.
To assist in the training of new staff.
To follow laboratory procedures to condemn inadequate or mislabelled samples.
To arrange preparation, packaging and transportation for those tests to be sent to other laboratories for analysis.
To ensure samples for clinical trials are processed and stored appropriately.
Refer to attached JD and Person Specification for main responsibilitie