Overview
The role is a full-time role of 37.5 hours a week. You will be required to cover a range of shifts, which will include weekends, bank holidays, early, lates, as part of the rota. The roles will be based at Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth hospitals mainly with expectations to work cross sites and weekends depending on service needs. Specimen Reception is a fast-paced, high output environment covering all four sites: Queen Elizabeth, Heartlands, and Good Hope over a 24-hour period and core hours at Solihull.
Responsibilities
* Lead administrative duties: day to day line management and operational responsibility for the Specimen Reception Team, sickness monitoring and management, appraisal completion, annual leave approval, ensuring mandatory training is within compliance, workload allocation and delegation, organising and reallocating work where situation change due to variation to the workload and staffing availability, reviewing work performance, supporting recruitment panels, planning and organising rotas, audits.
* Technical duties: recording specimen details, traceability, recording and updating information on laboratory system, housekeeping, monitoring and recording of equipment, disposal of clinical specimens and waste as per laboratory protocol, filing and scanning of paper and electronic records in accordance with laboratory standard operating procedures, answering telephone enquiries, sorting reports, centrifuging samples.
Opportunities
This is an excellent and exciting opportunity if you are willing to embark on a challenge and wish to join a professional team.
Equal Opportunity and Inclusion
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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