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Head of Haematology

2 weeks ago

Poulton le Fylde, United Kingdom National Veterinary Services Limited Full time

Full-time 40 hours per week | Permanent

**Salary**: £Competitive and dep on experience

This is a great opportunity to work in our Poulton laboratory within our Haematology department.

NationWide Laboratories, as an independent veterinary diagnostic laboratory, are dedicated to the improvement of animal health through direct support of veterinary practices in the UK and worldwide. We have been delivering service for over 30 years. NationWide Laboratories is a trading entity of National Veterinary Services Ltd. (NVSL).

**What you will be doing**
- Responsible for the organisation of the laboratory staff to deal with workload demands in the Haematology department, liaising with the Operations Manager as necessary.
- Responsible for the recruitment and HR issues of departmental staff including training, discipline, wage sheets, welfare, PDR and safety of all staff to ensure optimal staff performance.
- Responsible for Health and Safety requirements with safe working practices in compliance with the Health and safety at Work Act, in cooperation with the Health and Safety officer of the laboratory and staff, to ensure legal requirements are met and there is a clean, safe working environment.
- Works as part of the laboratory site management team to execute the efficient operation of the laboratory and works on standardisation of procedures across sites.
- Examination of Blood smears, including WBC and RBC abnormalities.
- Operation of the ADVIA 2120 Haematology analyser, including maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Produces and maintains a training plan for their team providing for training requirements and facilities and maintains staff training records to ensure their staff are adequately trained for efficient running of the laboratory.
- Establishes and validates methods of examination of samples, liaising with the Operations Manager, Laboratory Manager, Quality Manager and customer facing teams as necessary to ensure best practice for sample handling and analysis.
- Responsible for the production and maintenance of written Standard Operating Procedures and compliance with these to ensure the quality of results.
- Performing method reviews to ensure the most appropriate standards are in use and that the methods are continuing to fulfil the needs of the client.
- Understands the requirements of laboratory customers and incorporates these into the operation of the department.
- Supervises the maintenance schedules and records of service and daily monitoring records of equipment and the environment to ensure equipment is functioning correctly and results produced are accurate.
- Supervises the stocks of reagents and consumables and their correct storage, and monitors workflow assisting where necessary to ensure smooth running of the laboratory.
- Supervises and monitors performance in external and internal quality assurance schemes.
- Oversees the day to day management of departments, including validating and reporting of results.

**Working for us**
- 25 days paid holiday (including bank holidays)
- Extra holidays for long service
- Life assurance benefit
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking and Wi-Fi
- A 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme - offering a range of support services to help you to resolve difficulties in your home-life
- Savings related share option plan
- Christmas hampers
- Eye-sight vouchers for VDU users
- Enhanced company pension scheme

**Who we are looking for**
- Minimum of 5 years relevant laboratory experience.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Problem solving ability.
- HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist
- Demonstrates a detailed understanding of the important elements of laboratory diagnostic testing.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to multi-task.
- Computer literate.
- Highly customer focused.
- Highly motivated.
- Challenges, questions practices and improves.
- Performance and quality.
- Team player.

Successful applicants will be required to disclose any unspent criminal convictions to the Company. A DBS check may be carried out in compliance with Home Office guidelines. Applicants should be aware that with in line with our Drugs and Alcohol policy random tests are carried out.

NVSL is committed to equality of opportunity and this underpins our employment and recruitment procedures. We use objective, job-related criteria when making appointment decisions and our selection criteria is based on skills, experience, qualifications and an ability to do the job.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Education**:

- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Laboratory: 5 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person