Sample Reception Area Supervisor

at  Health Services Laboratories HSL

From £26,000 DOE
Job Title: Sample Reception Area Supervisor
Location: North Middlesex University Hospital, Sterling Way, London N18 1QX
Salary range: From £26,000 DOE

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.

*• 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 wee

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Working in SRA alongside the current supervisors and reporting back to the SRA manager and deputy SRA manager.
To lead by example and ensure safe and accurate management of samples that we received
Assisting the deputy manager and SRA manager
Will need to understand different and specialist handling requirement for samples
Abide by rules and regulations

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Dealing with queries
Dealing with add ons
Dealing with emails and phone quires
Should be trained on all disciplines and have good knowledge of the department
Should train new members of staff
Responsible for looking after and maintaining MLAs
Working patterns typically Monday to Friday 37.5 hours / Flexible to work weekends when needed.
Mon-Fri -10:00-18:30
11:00-19:30
Weekends (2 a month (Saturday))

At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related 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

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities but if it is not apparent from the CV that you are living and working in the UK, please provide details of you “Work Rights” and include this in your application. On occasions we are able to provide sponsorship but it is helpful in your application that we know of your need for support in advance. For this particular role we are not, at this time, able to provide sponsorship.