This post requires the ability to communicate clearly with other staff within the department, ward staff including clinicians and nurses, GPs and their staff and patients, along with external laboratories; Providing confidential, specialised and sensitive diagnostic test results over the telephone tousers of the service. Liaising with other members of staff within the department on a routine basis to ensure safeand efficient daily operation. This post requires good base level theoretical knowledge, general education/experience equivalent to NVQ standard level 3 and the ability to understand a wide range of routine and non-routine laboratory procedures after a period of job training and induction.