Job summary
Employer heading
STAFF BANK - Advanced Biomedical Support Worker Band 3
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Main duties of the job
Background
South West London Pathology is an award winning pathology partnership between three leading Hospital Trusts – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Croydon Health Services NHS Trust – designed to provide an integrated, high quality pathology service for hospitals and GPs across South West London, by bringing together the best of each Trust’s service and providing them within a single organisation.
The Role:
Clinical Blood Sciences (CBS)
The South West London Pathology laboratory at St George's Hospital operates a 24hr shift system providing cover to a busy A&E and acute services. The Laboratories are equipped with Roche c8000 analysers with c8100 pre analytics automation for Biochemistry, and ACL Top 550, Beckman Coulter DxH 800 with AutoMate 1200 for pre/post analytics Haematology and coagulation services, as well as Diamed IH-100 for automated Blood Transfusion services.
The successful applicant will be able to work with laboratory equipment and processes across the Blood Sciences disciplines (Biochemistry, Haematology, Blood Transfusion and Central Pathology Reception).
Whilst full training will be provided, you will need to have proven experience of working in a diagnostic pathology department and have knowledge across a range of laboratory procedures. The successful candidates will be expected to participate in the 24hr shift system after suitable training. Continuous professional development (CPD) will be encouraged.
There may be a need for the successful candidate to change their usual working location to one of the other SWLP laboratories in the future.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Find out more about South West London Pathology on our website
Working for our organisation
We expect all our staff at SWL Pathology to share the values that are important to us and that our service users have a right to expect – to be excellent, kind, responsible and respectful, delivering the best possible standard of service at all times and to behave in a way that reflects these values
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached JD
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- • GCSE / O levels in Maths, English Language, Biology and Chemistry or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven experience of working in a diagnostic pathology department
- • Knowledge across a range of laboratory procedures
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Accuracy and attention to detail
- • Able to communicate information accurately
- • Able to follow written methodologies or protocols
- • Basic computer skills
- • Organised and methodical
- • Able to work as part of a team
- • Prepared to work with biological materials
- • Awareness of health & safety issues
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Basic medical terminology
Other relevant requirements
Essential criteria
- • Good manual dexterity
- • Able to perform light physical work
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Kirsopp
- Job title
- Immunology and Protein Reference Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8266 6182
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