Associate Practitioner, Biochemistry Department

Watford General Hospital, Hertfordshire- From £29,640 DOE**Job Title**: Associate Practitioner**Department**: Biochemistry Department**Location**: Watford General Hospital, WD18 0HB**Contract /Hours**: Permanent/37.5**Salary range**: From £29,640 DOE**About us**:
**Sonic Healthcare** is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.**Sonic Healthcare UK** encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.- Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)_

**About the role**:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Practitioner to join the Biochemistry department at Watford Essential Services Laboratory and Hemel Hempstead Hospital.The post holder will be required to work within any section of the department, including core and unsocial hours as required. As part of the commissioning of the Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) Pathology service HSL which will establish a new hub laboratory based at 7 Croxley Park, Watford it is an expectation that some blood sciences staff based within the Watford and Hemel hospital sites will transfer across to the new hub when this becomes operational in 2026.At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- **Training and development opportunities** - supporting professional development
- **Annual salary review**:

- No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
- **Discounted gym membership** - we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- **Cash healthcare plan** - cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- **Sick Pay Entitlement**- 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
- **Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover**
- **Life Assurance**- providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- **Employee Assistance Programme**- supporting staff wellbeing
- **Season Ticket Loan Scheme**- interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- **Perkbox** - Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- **Company Pension Scheme -** company and staff contributions which increase with service
- **Competitive annual leave allowance** - 28 days
- **Flexible working hours**- we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule-PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OTHER MEDIA- Vacancy ID:
- 033575- Closing Date:
- 28-Jul-2025- Contact Person:
- Vanessa Eugenio