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Job Title: Associate Practitioner

Department: Molecular Pathology

Location: 1 Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9AX

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

Salary range: Up to £38,005.80 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:

A vacancy has arisen for a full time, Associate Practitioner in our Molecular Virology Department based in Central London.

Duties include but not limited to; receipt and triage of samples, preparing specimens for analysis, to use, maintain, calibrate and control a range of specialist laboratory equipment, quality assurance, sample tracking and dispatching & communicating with colleagues and service users. You will also be required to assist the Biomedical Scientists in the laboratory. You must have good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills

The job holder will be expected to process and test patient specimens in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures by using manual, semi and fully automated laboratory methods.

Relevant experience is essential and a scientific qualification in biosciences would be an advantage.

At HSL 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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