Medical Laboratory Assistant

This is an exciting opportunity to join the recently formed Black Country Pathology Service by the joining together of four Trusts: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Walsall NHS Healthcare Trust.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who would welcome the challenge to join our friendly team in this hospital laboratory and participate in the delivery of a single integrated, high quality pathology service to the Trusts and GPs in the area as a hub and spoke model.

The BCPS provides comprehensive pathology service to an approximate population of 1.8 million, due for full implementation in 2020.We are a fully UKAS accredited, forward looking and dynamic department using modern equipment to deliver a quality routine and acute service to the Trust and surrounding GPs. The department processes 100,00 Histology specimens.

Main duties of this role comprise receipt, sorting, organisation and data entry for a wide variety of diagnostic tissue samples submitted to the Department for investigation.

To participate in the routine duties of the Histopathology Department, as part of a team, under the direction and supervision of Biomedical Scientists (BMS 1 and above) ensuring compliance with Departmental Policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Take part in the specimen entry process using the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) (Winpath). Ensure that all samples / request forms are correctly matched and fulfil the specimen acceptance criteria of the Department. Highlight any discrepancies to a senior member of staff.

To undertake laboratory administrative tasks including packaging and referral of histological material for primary or secondary reporting by an external service provider. Ensure accurate records of referral and return of material are maintained.

Filing and archiving of all material both received in, and produced by, the laboratory. Retrieval of archived material from the archive for multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings as required.

Sorting and delivery of external post to areas in the Department.

Replenish stocks of consumable items in Specimen Reception and the Specimen Trimming Room and distribute to internal and external users of the service as required.