Pathology Healthcare Science Assistant
| Posting date: | 10 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 November 2025 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, MK6 5LD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9430-25-0680 |
Summary
Maintain a professional approach to work at all times and to deal courteously with enquiries from within and outside the hospital. Manage Pathology reception, receiving visitors and patients, dealing with enquiries and ensuring that printed results are sent to requesters at an acceptable rate. Manage telephone enquiries, ensuring the caller is authorised to receive personal and/or confidential information, passing on enquiries to BMS (biomedical scientist) staff where appropriate & giving out authorised results to medical & nursing staff. Comply with Data Protection regulations and maintain patient confidentiality Monitor and action all Pathology mail received Take receipt of pathology specimens and verify sample is suitable for requested analysis Monitor temperatures of incubators, refrigerators, freezers. Report any discrepancies to Team Leader/Manager staff. Filing of samples, request cards and results. Prepare worksheets and selection of samples prior to analysis. Ensure patients, members of the public and Trust and external healthcare staff are given the correct protocols for any test required and that they understand what is required. Receive all types of specimens e.g. blood, urine, faeces etc. for laboratory investigation. Histology samples from theatre must be carefully checked to ensure they are correct and must be signed for in the theatre book. To check patient identification on samples/request cards and attach laboratory numbers (or bar codes) as appropriate. To be responsible for the initial investigation of mislabelled or missing samples and report inadequate samples to qualified laboratory staff. Ensure all mismatched requests are carefully logged according to quality standards. Please refer to the job description for further details.