Medical Laboratory Assistant - Cellular Pathology

The Lister Hospital Cellular Pathology Department is looking for a Medical Laboratory Assistant to work in Pathology Services within the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

Our busy department provides vital diagnostic services to the Trust, duties will include receipt and labelling of samples, assisting in specimen dissection, inputting pathology requests on a computer system and supporting the Biomedical Scientists.

The role will involve the handling of pathology tissue samples.

Lab experience is advantageous but not essential.

To work flexibly in reflection of service needs this may include an extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hour, 7days per week service.

This position is under a fixed term contract for 12 months.

• Responsible for sample receipt, numbering and data entry on the computer system.
• Support of quality control processes.
• Participate in day to day management of stock control and usage.
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment.
• Use equipment in a safe manner and report any equipment faults to more senior members of staff.
• To work flexibly in reflection of service needs this may include an extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hour, 7days per week service.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.

Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.