Medical Laboratory Assistant

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow

From £23,310 DOE

Job Title : Medical : Laboratory Assistant

Location : Northwick Park Hospital, HA1 3UJ

About us :

Sonic Healthcare  is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical 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.

About the role :

An opportunity has arisen for a Medical Laboratory Assistant position in the Microbiology team at Northwick Park Hospital.

The department processes in excess of 320,000 samples per annum arising from a wide range of clinical situations and specialities.  You will be working in a refurbished, well equipped laboratory, with advanced diagnostic and IT systems.    An interesting and varied workload, together with new automated solutions within the department, will allow you to gain unique and valuable experience of modern microbiology practice. The laboratory is situated in Harrow, and offers a pleasant and spacious working environment and excellent staff facilities.

The role involves collecting, sorting and testing samples, registering specimens in WinPath and Helix, answering telephone enquiries, validating results prior to authorisation, use of Kiestra laboratory automation, Bactec, Phoenix, Sedimax, Dynex DS2, GeneXpert and EntericBio analysers. General laboratory duties such as : maintaining equipment, stock and daily housekeeping.

Flexible working patterns are in operation, and you will be required to participate in a seven-day rota comprising mainly late shift, if required early, core and night shifts.

If you require further information about this position, please contact Shashin Kava on 020 8869 5065. ([email protected]).

At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including :

• Training and development opportunities  – supporting professional development
• Annual performance related 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  – 37.5 hours standard working week