Band 3 Eqa Assistant

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an EQA Assistant to support in the day to day running of our post room and laboratory.

We are looking for an EQAS Assistant to work within a friendly, professional and busy team dedicated to providing External Quality Assessment (EQA) programmes to Hospital Laboratories.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patient care by providing services designed to guarantee the quality of patient test results.

Are you an enthusiastic, well-motivated individual with excellent attention to detail?

Would you like to work in a laboratory environment where you would be handling biological materials?

Are you able to communicate effectively with EQA programme participants (hospital laboratory staff) and other members of your team?

If you can answer 'yes' to these questions, then this may be the opportunity for you

If this post interests you then you are welcome to come and visit Birmingham Quality, see the variety of work performed and meet other team members. Please contact Holly Tuite (Operations Manager) on 0121 414 7300.

The hours are full time, notionally between 08:30 and 17:00, and the position is permanent.

Birmingham Quality is proud to be part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
The job is varied and includes
- Laboratory work:
receiving, checking and processing biological materials

manufacture of EQA specimens

labelling and packaging of specimens
- Dispatching EQA surveys to participants
- Specialist administration and record keeping
- Working as part of a busy team

Full details are given in the job description and person specification. Experience gained in a clinical laboratory or an EQA centre within the Biochemistry discipline would be a distinct advantage.

Please note that this post is not suitable for those wishing to complete their IBMS training portfolio

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
GCSE Maths and English or equivalent at grade C or above

NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience.

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Experience of working in laboratories


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