Medical Laboratory Assistant (Fixed Term/Night Shift), Sample Reception - London
Cleveland Clinic, London
Up to £34,030.08 per annum DOE
Job Title: Medical Laboratory Assistant
Department: Sample Reception
Location: Cleveland Clinic, SW1X 7HY
Contract /Hours: Fixed Term/37.5 per week
Salary range: Up to £34,030.08 per annum DOE
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 exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Medical Laboratory Assistant to join the Pathology TDL Cleveland Clinic, working night shift. Experienced MLA staff only will be considered and this is for a 1 year fixed term position.
This strategically located laboratory is located a few minutes’ walk from Victoria station and is surrounded by a host of London’s land marks and close to many exciting bars, restaurants and shopping areas.
The laboratory provides a 24-hour service and has a multi-discipline repertoire, based within Cleveland Clinic, a prestigious American private hospital that is the first of its kind within the UK. The services offered are still expanding, having been open for just over three years now, and there are regular advancements of clinical procedures and equipment. The hospital has 29 ITU beds 8 Theatres plus Cath Labs/ Interventional Radiology and Endoscopy, serving both inpatients and outpatients.
The successful candidate will be participating in the out of hours rota alongside a qualified BMS. This involves week day and weekend night shifts (2000-0900). Full training will be provided in-house and the candidate will join the out of hours rota on completion of training and all relevant competency assessments. The laboratory offers routine testing in haematology, biochemistry and blood transfusion and also carries out PCR testing for Covid-19 and MRSA.
The role offers opportunity to develop additional skills within the laboratory but we are not able to support a training portfolio at this time.
Being part of the TDL regional labs group, staff are supported by and contribute to the other TDL regional labs functions in sharing input into troubleshooting, training, peer auditing, presenting training sessions and supporting company projects.