Medical Laboratory Assistant

5 days ago


Salisbury, United Kingdom Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated person to join our friendly team of staff. As an MLA (advanced), you will play a key role in helping to deliver and develop our comprehensive Microbiology service.

You will have a positive, professional approach to patient care and be keen to work as part of a busy, highly skilled team. Previous experience within a diagnostic laboratory is desirable for this post.

You will be expected to actively participate in the training of the MLA team, as well as to be pro-active in your own continued development.

This post is not a trainee post and will not lead to completion of IBMS portfolio

You will support Biomedical Science staff by maintaining analytical equipment, preparing biological specimens for analysis and performing QC procedures. You will help to meet quality standards necessary for accreditation, and ensure that protocols are followed in a way that maintains Health, Safety and Information Security for individuals, the Department and the Trust.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

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.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.



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