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An exciting opportunity has arisen for Laboratory Medicine at Weston General. This is a post for a permanent Medical Laboratory Assistant at the Weston General Hospital Pathology site within UHBW.
The post holder will be part of a team providing a diagnostic Blood Sciences service to the Trust. The team comprises Medical Laboratory Assistants (MLA), Biomedical Scientists, Clerical staff and Medical staff.
The post holder will be an important part of the Laboratory Medicine team, supporting implementation of the new laboratory instrumentation. They will work primarily in the automated laboratory within Haematology, Blood Transfusion and Clinical Biochemistry, assisting with sample workflow.
The post holder will be required to work routine, late shifts, night shifts, weekend and bank holiday shifts in order to support the routine and out of hours service. This will be part of a rota within the working team.
The post holder will contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of patients within the hospital by providing technical and data entry assistance to Departmental staff.
The post holder will perform a number of healthcare science technical activities including maintaining new equipment, supporting verification of instruments, and generally assisting colleagues where necessary.
Main duties of the job
1. Supporting the automated laboratory as directed by Biomedical Scientists throughout the 27/7 service.
2. Enabling the smooth workflow of samples between pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical processes. Including use of various automated analysers and automated storage equipment.
3. Collecting, sorting, prioritising and processing of samples in a busy environment while maintaining good working relationships with colleagues and service users.
4. Filing of samples following completion of analysis into the appropriate storage systems.
5. Retrieval of consumables and reagents from the stores, advising the senior BMS when the stock becomes low.
6. Use of laboratory information management systems.
7. Use of software packages including word processing, spreadsheets and databases to enter data on a daily basis.
8. Use of e-mail to send authorised documents within Blood Sciences.
9. Use of the document management system (IQM).
10. To observe all applicable safety regulations and attend any mandatory and statutory training as required.
11. To undertake such training as necessary to enhance and to improve performance within the Department.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The working pattern in this role is rota based. Therefore your contracted hours of 37.5 per week (full time working equivalent) will be calculated across a rota period of 13 weeks in accordance with agenda for change. Dependant on the needs of the service, your total working hours will fluctuate due to the different length of time of the shifts, however as part of rota management your shifts will balance to be within your contracted time.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* At least five GCSE’s grade C or above to include English, mathematics and science
* Level 3 Qualification in Science
* Approved Biomedical Science degree
Knowledge and Experience
* Work experience in a laboratory
* Experience in a customer service role
* Understanding of the NHS
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to learn and use PC laboratory software packages after training
* Ability to organise own work
* Ability to prioritise work as required
* Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
* Ability to work various shifts to support the out of hours service
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
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