Medical Laboratory Assistants

4 weeks ago


Chester, United Kingdom Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit two Medical Laboratory Assistants Scientist, to become part of the expanding team of dedicated professionals staffing the Cellular Pathology Department. Applicants for the position should be ambitious, highly motivated and looking to progress in their career.

The Cellular Pathology Department is situated in the main Countess of Chester site alongside the Blood Sciences, Transfusion, Immunology and Mortuary services. There is also a shared Microbiology service with Wirral University Teaching Hospital, which is found off-site at Bromborough.

The department is fully UKAS accredited and deals with approximately 23000 Histology samples, 1600 Non-Gynae Cytology specimens and 9500 Immunochistochemistry tests annually.

Previous experience in a Histology laboratory environment would be an advantage.

Banding would be a Band 3 on completion of necessary competencies

The duties to be undertaken will include the receipt and checking and preparation of samples for laboratory examination, carrying out routine reagent maintenance on the staining machine, staining of slides, the inputting of patient records onto the laboratory computer system and preparing chemical and dye solutions used to analyse specimens, filing and retrieval of slides, blocks and records.

You will be trained to cut surgical and post mortem tissue sections, carry out tissue embedding and carry out routine cleaning of processors and immunocytochemistry staining machines

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.



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