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Medical Laboratory Assistant (Advanced) - Histopathology

Job details
Posting date: 09 October 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 08 November 2025
Location: Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Company: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 7496324/214-CSTO-7496324

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Summary

A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you a motivated and enthusiastic individual looking to make a difference in the field of Histopathology? Join our dynamic team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust!

About Us: Our busy Histopathology department provides essential diagnostic services to the Trust and surrounding community areas. We offer a comprehensive range of tissue analysis to aid in accurate diagnoses, ensuring the best outcomes for patients attending the Trust, General Practice, or private clinics. Our services also play a crucial role in cancer screening programmes.

Your Role:As an Advanced Medical Laboratory Assistant, you will support our registered Biomedical Scientists and be an integral part of our team.

What We Offer:
• A collaborative and supportive work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• The chance to work with innovative technology in the field of Digital Pathology.

Join us in making a meaningful impact on patient care and advancing the future of Histopathology!

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.



This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025

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