Medical Laboratory Assistant - Blood Sciences Lead

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will provide supervisory support to the team of Medical Laboratory assistants in blood sciences specimen reception. To help facilitate blood sciences department team in the provision of an efficient and smooth running diagnostic service. Delivering a high quality data input service, ensuring high standards of practice are achieved and maintained and organize rosters and help in training and development of entry level MLA's.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once sufficient applications forms have been received.

Perform a range of routine healthcare science activities under supervision

Perform basic sample reception and process duties including the receipt, barcode labelling and preparation of samples for analysis, loading of samples onto analysers or other laboratory equipment and sample archiving.

Perform clerical tasks including data input of patient demographics and test request information and maintains clerical records.

The work of the service brings staff into constant contact with human body fluids, tissues and hazardous chemicals. This may be blood, urine, fluid and faeces.

The post holder may be required to work at North Tyneside/Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital/Wansbeck and Hexham Hospitals

To work flexibly in reflection of service needs this may include an extended working day and/or participation in delivery of a 24 hours, 7 days per week service

The post holder will be responsible to the Biomedical Scientists in Blood Sciences.

The post holder will be expected to perform a variety of clerical, technical and administrative tasks within the specimen reception area and Blood Sciences Departments.

The work involves handling biological samples and paperwork associated with this process therefore the departmental health and safety policies must be adhered to at all times.

NB: Post holder must not work outside their defined field of competence

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The post holder will provide supervisory support to the team of Medical Laboratory assistants in blood sciences specimen reception. To help facilitate blood sciences department team in the provision of an efficient and smooth running diagnostic service. Delivering a high quality data
input service, ensuring high standards of practice are achieved and maintained and organize rosters and help in training and development of entry level MLA's.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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