Band 3 Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust

Posting date:	09 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£29,176 - £30,225 Per annum inclusive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 August 2025
Location:	Romford, RM7 0AG
Company:	Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7335701/162-7134-AV

Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic, well-organized individual to join our Blood Transfusion laboratory, Pathology Department as a Medical Laboratory Assistant at BHRUT, covering both Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital. The post will provide significant opportunities for both personal development and service improvements.

Good computer skills, attention to detail, good personal organisation, and awareness of quality control processes is essential to the post, ideally with experience of blood sample handling and inputting information onto a computer system such as a database or a Laboratory Information Management System.

· To keep the workplace and work benches clean and tidy.



· To maintain good work relations with all members of staff, and to work as part of a team.





· To treat everyone associated with BHR Hospital NHS Trust with courtesy and respect.



· To maintain and promote the professional image of Laboratory Transfusion at BHR Hospital NHS Trust.





· To comply with all local and national standards of work practice e.g. the ISO 15189 Standard and to facilitate UKAS accreditation

· To clean, disinfect and maintain laboratory equipment including blood storage facilities within the laboratory and in the clinical areas, to achieve the optimum instrument performance.



· To Identify and barcode samples on arrival according to lab protocol and enter patient requests into the laboratory computer system.



· To check details on the hospital PAS/Medway system as required to resolve discrepancies in patient identification.



· To assist in handling and distribution of incoming and outgoing goods, equipment, blood components, specimens and reagents.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.



For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.


This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025

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