Job Description
Please note this a permanent full time position, working Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00. Working an occasional Saturday.
As a Medical Lab Assistant, you will prepare samples for analysis using the current laboratory protocol, to assist Associate Practitioners in maintenance and preparation of equipment.
You will also help maintain adequate levels of reagents and consumables, laboratory cleaning duties and disposing of waste.
1. To receive patient samples.
2. Sort and identify specimens received.
3. Assist in areas of Quality Management as necessary.
4. Register patient details and tests required on the laboratory computer system.
5. Prepare samples where appropriate for analysis.
6. Work within the departmental good laboratory practice, health and safety policy and code of conduct and maintain health and safety standards.
7. Maintain laboratory and ensure workbenches are clean and tidy.
8. Safely handle and dispose of blood, urine or other biological material or hazardous chemicals.
9. Prepare referral samples for external laboratory analysis.
Qualifications
10. Educated to GCSE/A level or equivalent.
11. Computer literate
12. Able to communicate and work within a team.
13. Numerate and able to undertake scientific calculations.
14. Punctual and reliable
15. Ability to work without close supervision.
16. Attention to detail
Additional Information
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
17. Reward and Recognition
18. Health Cash Plan
19. Life Assurance (4 times annual salary).
20. Company Pension Plan
21. Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
22. Free car parking
23. Worldwide career opportunities
24. Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!