Laboratory Administrator

The Clinical Biochemistry Department is based across 3 laboratories at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. It provides services to the Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT, primary care, South 4 Pathology Partnership, other NHS providers, private care, and research trials. The department is open 24/7 on the John Radcliffe and Horton sites. The laboratory service includes Core Automated Biochemistry, Specialist Manual and HPLC, Screening (both antenatal and neonatal) and Point of Care. The post is full time, average working hours 37.5 hours per week supporting a 24/7 service., The post holder will be responsible for the administration service for the Clinical Biochemistry department. This will include being a designated contact for external visitors, service users and team or service queries. To provide a high quality, comprehensive and professional secretarial service to support the Laboratory Manager and the Clinical Lead. The role will include producing invoices, data entry and review, referral reporting, letter, and document preparation.

Successful candidates must be conscientious, enthusiastic, and able to work well as a team, as well as individually. You will have exceptional organisational skills and an ability to autonomously. You will be required to demonstrate competence for the service delivery of the department, in line with UKAS compliance.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.