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Medical Laboratory Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are looking for a new Medical Laboratory Assistant to join our laboratory team at the James Paget University Hospital.
You will need good keyboard skills as this role involves using the Laboratory computer system so an ability to concentrate and attention to detail are essential. You will need to follow instructions to ensure no errors are made.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The role is to support the effective, consistent and efficient running of Blood Sciences services. Perform a range of routine and non-routine tasks within Specimen Reception and relevant laboratory areas. Perform standard biological tests, process blood and other fluids for analysis ensuring sample integrity is maintained at all times.
This role requires the daily use of the Pathology IT systems to a very high level of accuracy and speed when inputting patient demographic and test data.
You will be trained to a high standard in a multidisciplinary setting.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
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- Electronic transfer of patient details and requests via bar-code scanning into the Pathology IT system.
- Manual inputting of patient details and test requests into the laboratory computer system.
- Scanning requested forms into the laboratory information system database (if used).
- Labelling and preparing patient’s blood, urine, and other fluids for analysis utilising aseptic techniques
- Sample centrifugation, separation of serum from red cells and pipetting serum aliquots for analysis ensuring that the minimum volume is available for the range of investigations requested.
- Determination of urinary volume by weight and aliquoting into labelled secondary container as part of the basic requirement for 24 hour urine biochemical tests.
- Preparation of “Danger of Infection” samples for analysis in accordance with Health & Safety regulations.
- Required to resolve problems with mislabelled and/or mislaid samples from users. Inform users if additional or replacement samples are required for testing.
- Answers telephone inquiries from pathology users, patients and patient carers about test results and provide information that is complex concerning methodologies and service requirements, seeking advice as required.
- Communicates complex service related test information to managers, consultants, nurses, other health care colleagues, patients and patient carers.
- Deal with enquiries from patients and visitors to the department.
- Deliver Pathology reports to the wards if required.
- Collect and prepare sample waste for disposal.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience of working in a multi-disciplinary laboratory
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Has a working knowledge of the activities performed within their service
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Will be able to effectively work within a complex multidisciplinary team
Meini prawf dymunol
- Possess advanced key board skills to input data at high speed and accuracy
Attitude, aptitude
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Annie Chileshe
- Teitl y swydd
- CBMS Blood Science Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01493 452829
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