Medical Laboratory Assistants

Medical Laboratory Assistant (Band 3)

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Pathology Department at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital for a Medical Laboratory Assistant who will be trained to work within our combined reception area, providing support to the Blood Sciences laboratory.

The applicant should have a good standard of general education and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Applicants should be able to demonstrate an attention to detail and an ability to learn new tasks.

The post-holder will be required to handle biological specimens, e.g. blood, faeces, urine, in accordance with Directorate Health & Safety Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures.

The main duties include preparation, labelling and data entry of clinical specimens for biological testing which have to be undertaken with care. It will be advantageous to have worked in a laboratory environment previously and some IT experience would be of benefit.

The department is UKAS accredited to ISO 15189 and is an accredited IBMS training laboratory.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

**We live by our core values**:

- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

**The applicant will be required to**:

- To receive, sort, check and bar code a variety of biological specimens
- To accept specimens from patients and clinicians which arrive directly in the Laboratory and ensure correlation between the specimen and request form.
- To input patient/specimen details for a variety of test requests from clinical sources into the

Laboratory computer system using various formats
- The post holder will be required to perform manual tasks such as lifting large sample racks as well as storing supplies and emptying waste containers.
- The post holder will be required to perform the maintenance of some laboratory equipment e.g., centrifuges, fridges, blood gas analysers
- Will perform general housekeeping duties e.g., decontamination of equipment and laboratory benches and replace sharps containers as and when required
- Respond and deal with enquiries both clinical and non-clinical appertaining to the department. These may be from clinicians, patients or patients' relatives
- Will be expected to operate expensive and sophisticated equipment. Is required to maintain various stocks
- Ensure that test results are correlated and entered into the computer system
- Enter patient data into the computer system
- Will be required to demonstrate own role to new starters and less experienced staff