NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Healthcare Science Associate Practitioner to join Laboratory Genetics, which forms part of the West of Scotland Centre for Genomic Medicine. The laboratory provides a high quality cytogenetic and molecular diagnostics service to the West of Scotland, population >2.7 million, and to the whole of Scotland through the Scottish Strategic Network for Genomic Medicine. The laboratory is based in the state of the art Laboratory Medicine building at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
You will join our team of >110 scientific and technical staff, and work as part of a team to provide technical support to the scientific staff of the Laboratory Genetics department. You will be responsible for supervision and motivation of our team of Healthcare Science Assistants (higher level) who work in specimen reception to ensure the provision of a high quality, timely, and cost efficient pre-analytical service. This includes the organisation of staff and workload to maintain efficient workflow through the department, prioritisation of urgent requests, balancing competing demands of routine and specialist areas and use of technical knowledge and skills to advise and support the staff. Effective operation of the sample reception area which processes >35,000 samples per year is essential to the operation of the Department.
You should have an HNC, SVQ3, SCQF Level 7 in an appropriate scientific subject or equivalent with additional theoretical or applied training equivalent to diploma level. You should have previous supervisory experience, preferably in a diagnostic laboratory.
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