Medical Laboratory Assistant Team Leader

6 months ago


Salisbury, United Kingdom Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for a person with excellent interpersonal and leadship skills to lead our Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) team. The role involves working across all the Cellular pathology laboratory areas within the MLA team plus microtomy.

You will be responsible for supervising, organising and developing the MLA team whilst supporting the scientific and medical teams.

**The main duites include**:

- Co-ordinate and supervise day-to day activities of the MLAs
- To supervise, lead and develop the MLA team
- Careful and accurate reception, sorting and numbering of specimens
- Preparation of solutions and stains, and the maintenance of supplies with the laboratory
- To ensure all specimens are processed in accordance with agreed laboratory procedures.
- To input data into the LIMS and other IT systems in an accurately and timely manner.
- Perform microtomy to a high standard

Please see job description and person specification for full list of duties and expections of the postholder.

The role is Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

To learn and maintain good laboratory practice in the interests of the departmental commitment to provide an effective high-quality service.
- To effectively supervise, organise and develop the MLA team, under the management of the BMS team managers and laboratory manager.
- To provide technical support and contribute towards the output of the Cellular Pathology laboratory by supporting the scientific and medical teams.
- To ensure all specimens are processed in accordance with agreed laboratory procedures.
- To manage the training of new and existing staff in the MLA areas and ensure standards are maintained throughout the team.
- Perform microtomy.



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