From £27,007.50 DOE
Job Title: Medical Laboratory Assistant
Location: Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow
Salary range: From £27,007.50

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’s 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 2,500 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:

A vacancy has arisen for a Medical Laboratory Assistant in our Haematology/ Blood Transfusion Department at our Northwick Park and Central Middlesex Hospitals. Candidate will be expected to manage daily routine laboratory duties and the ideal candidate will contribute to providing a professional and technical laboratory service working effectively as a team member as part of the overall department and to work independently performing routine analyses with support as required from Biomedical Scientists/ Senior Biomedical Scientists.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Main duties will include rotation between Haematology and Blood Transfusion across both sites covering the 24/7 service, candidates will be expected to participate in all the duties, including night shifts on the Medical Laboratory Assistant Out of Hours Rota.
The responsibilities of this role include the analysis of patient samples to aid diagnosis of disease process by the application of Haematology/ Blood Transfusion technological and manual methods. Main duties include, general housekeeping including stock and waste management, to assist in the maintenance of equipment including start-up and shut-down procedures, running controls and calibration, as well as, ensuring equipment is functioning correctly prior to analysis, to help with troubleshooting procedures and informing SBMS when further actions are required. Medical Laboratory Assistant will perform various routine laboratory and specimen processing tasks in a precise and accurate manner to assist the laboratory staff in providing an excellent laboratory service and to maintain high standards of quality within the department and enter test results onto the LIMS prior to authorization by a qualified BMS. Medical Laboratory Assistant working in Blood Transfusion will be expected to book in Group and Save sample on the LIMS system and ensuring patient demographics are accurately matched, load and unload samples onto analysers either for automatic or manual sampling as required, ordering Blood components and help maintain cold chain in the Blood Transfusion Laboratory.

At Sonic Healthcare we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual salary review - No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days
• Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.