Healthcare Laboratory Assistant Specialist

1 day ago


North East, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role
As a Clinical Laboratory Operations Assistant at County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, you will be working as part of a team providing high-quality laboratory services to patients. You will be responsible for receiving, processing, and delivering samples to the relevant laboratory departments, as well as answering reception and telephone queries.

You will be required to work a 24/7 shift rota, including day shifts, late shifts, night shifts, weekend day shifts, and night shifts, Bank Holiday day shifts and night shifts including Christmas Day. Late shift after 5pm and weekend day shifts are busy times and these are times this post would be most likely to be rostered.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Prioritising urgent and AE samples to avoid delays and ensure best patient care.
  • Receipt of samples from within the hospital via a vacuum tube system or in person and from GP surgeries via courier services.
  • Booking a large volume of patient samples onto the Laboratory Computer System and ensuring the correct test requests are inputted.
  • Centrifuging samples and correctly loading the samples onto the relevant laboratory analysers.
  • Organising referral and packaging and sending of samples to other Trust sites and to other Trusts nationwide.
  • Answering reception and telephone queries and liaising with other Trust staff and the general public.
  • Receiving deliveries, ensuring they go to the correct department within Pathology, and unpacking and organising the stock as requested.
  • Scanning request forms and ensuring printed reports are sent to the correct requesting departments, GPs, or clinics in a timely manner.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
Basic Numeracy and literacy, NVQ 2 CLS or equivalent, Science and/or maths GCSE or above, IBMS Certificate of Achievement Part 1.

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