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Main area: Pathology Specimen Reception
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time on 24/7 shift pattern, also including long nights and long weekends)
Job ref: 435-D002-25
Site: RBTH
Town: Blackburn
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
Please note this role requires participation on a 24 hour shift rota covering long nights and long weekend days and Bank Holidays.
Based within Blood Sciences, you will be working mainly in specimen reception processing samples received from the Hospitals and General Practitioners. This is an area which can be very busy and requires precise working, under time pressures.
Keyboard skills and experience of data input would be a particular advantage, as would previous working in a Pathology lab.
Main duties of the job
* Work as part of a team supporting and supervised by a Health and Care Professions Council registered Biomedical Scientist. Preparing patient samples and requests for analysis, and carrying out basic laboratory duties.
* The Blood Sciences Department is a demand led service, processing over 4000 patient samples every weekday.
* The workflow is unpredictable such that there are significant peaks and troughs throughout the day in the number of samples arriving for processing.
* This requires a high level of tolerance to repetitive work. The need to maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail throughout prolonged periods of concentration are required.
* In sample processing, MLA’s must work to deadlines to assist in achieving defined analysis turnaround times to provide an effective clinical service to wards, departments and GP surgeries and a fast response service to the emergency departments.
Working for our organisation
We have a tight knit team in Specimen Reception. Your role will include participation of the 24 hour shift rota, and include long nights, long weekend days and Bank Holidays.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Collection of patients’ samples and forms from Pathology delivery point and from wards and departments.
* Check documentation and assess suitability of samples.
* To provide the first point of contact for Blood Sciences Department for other Trust and PCT staff.
* Using agreed procedures as defined in Standard Operating Procedures, to prepare samples, for analysis and distribution to sections of the department. Including numbering samples and forms, centrifugation of samples. All samples are potentially infectious and proportions are unpleasant in nature. Universal precautions are required to prevent cross infection from all samples.
* Assessment of centrifuged samples for suitability for analysis.
* Prioritisation of samples for analysis.
* Accurate input of patient details into the Laboratory Information System for each specimen received. Resolving issues of incorrect patient details by contact with medical staff on wards, clinics, and accessing external databases of patient information.
* Reception and preparation of urgent samples for analysis, including demographic input into Laboratory Information system.
* Responding to general service and patient result enquiries in person and by telephone.
* Retrieval of authorised results and offering basic technical advice to other Trust and PCT staff.
* Replenishment of stocks of consumables and reagents within Blood Sciences from Laboratory stores areas.
* Preparation of basic reagents as defined in Standard Operating Procedures under supervision of a Biomedical Scientist. This can involve hazardous chemicals.
* Preparation of specimen containers for distribution to wards and departments.
* General housekeeping duties as defined in Standard Operating Procedures including disinfection and decontamination of surfaces and equipment such as centrifuges, water baths, blood fridges and specimen freezers.
* When required loading of samples onto automated complex analytical equipment, and after training, some manual preparations requiring a higher level of manual skills.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 2 A levels (or equivalent) including a Science subject.
Other
* Able to work on a 24hr 7 day shift rota and provide reasonable flexibility.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to manage priorities under pressure, often repetitive jobs.
* Able to work well in a team and to be supportive of team members.
Experience
* Able to cope in a busy environment.
* Experience of working in Pathology.
* Data inputting experience.
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:
* Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
* This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
* Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
* Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.
The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.
The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post.
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