Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge? Then look no further!
Come and join a well-established friendly team, working within a modern, well equipped, fully UKAS 15189 accredited regional immunology laboratory. Staff will be appointed to the band 3 pay scale, dependent on the criteria listed in the person specification.
We value our staff and fully support their professional development. We are an IBMS approved training laboratory.
This post will be appointed to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, however candidates should be aware that Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is part of a pathology collaboration project. Four provider organisations in Lancashire and south Cumbria have committed to form a network and collaborate on pathology services, including Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. The intention is to form one pathology entity which will be is hosted by one of the existing provider organisations.
Main duties of the job
We are well equipped to provide an efficient high quality regional diagnostic service. Our equipment comprises of a Navios flow cytometer, DSII ELISA processors, Capillarys 2 Flex, Hydrasys 2 scan, Euroblot One, Bioplex, Helios slide processors, Phadia 2500, Phadia 1000, 2 x Phadia 250's and a BNII .
Staff rotate within the immunology department throughout three sections; autoimmunity, flow cytometry and immunochemistry and allergy using the latest automation and learning highly skilled manual specialist skills. You will be expected to run and maintain analysers and instruments, perform manual assays, file and retrieve patient samples, unpack and store orders, send post specimens away to referral laboratories and perform general laboratory housekeeping duties.
The post is full time 37.5 hours per week.
You will be a member of a team of medical laboratory assistants providing support to biomedical scientists and to the wider immunology team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
You will demonstrate excellent organisational skills, must be flexible in approach, able to exercise initiative and demonstrate a consistently high standards of professionalism, being aware of the need for confidentiality and integrity.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties to include but not be limited to:
1. Providing support, housekeeping and stock control for immunology
2. Performing work duties to the standards required in the job description and person specification
3. Undertaking the correct procedures for the handling of specimens, pre and post analysis
4. Maintaining and operating equipment used in the preparation and analysis of specimens
5. Performing a range of laboratory tests
6. Demonstrating awareness of factors affecting sample integrity and risks associated with the sample reagents or method
7. Using the main laboratory computer system in accordance with service requirements
*Please note the interview date may be subject to change*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
8. NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience
9. Uses continuing professional development as a means of self- development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. Have working knowledge of immunology laboratory areas including both practical and theoretical knowledge of various methods employed
11. Aware of the concept and application of confidentiality
12. Understanding of health and safety legislation pertaining to clinical laboratories
13. Able to demonstrate continuing competence in good laboratory general practice
Desirable criteria
14. Understanding of laboratory quality issues
15. Familiar with pathology LIMS
16. Experience of working in a clinical pathology laboratory
17. Knowledge of common IT programmes such as Word and Excel