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Job Title: Medical Laboratory Assistant

Department: Microbiology

Location: Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, HA1 3UJ

Contract /Hours: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary range: Up to £32,878 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance

About us:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services 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 3,500 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 full time 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 Laboratory IT system WinPath and Helix, answering telephone enquiries, 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 early, core, late and night shifts.

An excellent salary and benefits package reflecting the responsibility of this role will be offered to the successful applicant.

Further information about our organisation can be found on our website, www.tdlpathology.com.

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

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

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