Medical Laboratory Assistant - Clinical Biochemistry
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £24,937.00 i £26,598.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Torquay, TQ27AA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9388-25-1289 |
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Communication and working relationships Deal with telephone enquiries from medical, nursing, and other healthcare professionals. Calls include requests for test results, queries regarding blood sample tube type for a large number of different tests, requests for emergency tests. Any more complex queries are referred to senior members of staff Regularly check the computer-generated outstanding work lists for missing results from reference laboratories and follow up with telephone calls to the relevant laboratory where necessary To liaise with courier companies by telephone or fax to arrange pick-ups and deliveries to reference laboratories Contribute to a team of medical laboratory assistants and biomedical scientists in provision of an analytical service to Primary and Secondary Care Planning and organisation Removal of blood, urine and faeces samples and request forms from their plastic bags and checking the corresponding data. The samples and request forms are then bar-coded prior to data entry. These samples come from the District General Hospital, General Practice, Community Hospitals and Clinics served by the Trust Perform data entry via Electronic Order Comms and typed data entry from request forms Check that the samples received are the correct type and sufficient for the tests requested When required perform duties on the Urgent Sample reception bench To assist, when required, with the reception, preparation, sorting, storing and transportation of samples from Clinical Trials and Research and Development projects undertaken within the Department. These projects may be for a fixed time period or ongoing. Assist with stock control and replenishment/preparation of consumables for use of all staff Work to deadlines and have an attention to detail Responsibility and accountability Accountable to the Associate Practitioner and other Biomedical Scientists up to the Head BMS and Head of Department Perform pre-analytical procedures on urine, faeces and other sample types according to lab SOPs To centrifuge samples at a set speed and time and aliquot where necessary by transferring serum or urine to labelled additional tubes using hand-held pipettes and complete the necessary documentation for special tests dispatched to other reference laboratories for analysis To package samples for dispatch to reference laboratories ensuring compliance with the postal regulations for pathological specimens. To bring to the attention of Senior staff all rejected samples due to inadequate patient details given or incorrect type of sample received for the test requested To operate Cobas 8100 pre-analytical equipment Monitoring and recording of the temperature of all refrigerators and freezers containing reagents and specimens, as required by UKAS, any malfunction to be notified to a senior member of staff To collate and enter a range of test results received from reference laboratories (approx. 100 per week) into the pathology computer system ready for authorisation by Biomedical Scientists or Clinical Biochemists Regularly check the computer-generated outstanding work lists for missing results from reference laboratories and follow up with telephone calls to the relevant laboratory where necessary Policy and service responsibility To participate in annual Individual Performance Review Maintain own competencies as described by Department Record of Training and Ongoing Assessment Undertake Good Clinical Practice and Dangerous Goods Training (Dry ICE) To work at all times in accordance with the principles of best practice, with reference to all relevant national and local policies and guidelines, especially for Health and Safety, COSHH, UKAS and Risk assessments Must participate on evening rotas (12:00 to 20:00) in support of Biomedical Scientists. May also be required to work on weekends Responsibility for finance, equipment and other resources Carry out routine maintenance of pre-analytical equipment Perform specific Clinical Biochemistry tests e.g. Blood Gases in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures under the supervision of Biomedical Scientists Use balances and scales for preparation of samples e.g. 24-hour urines Change consumables on water purification system Responsibility for supervision, leadership and management Assisting in the training and monitoring of new or less experienced Medical Laboratory assistant staff or trainee Biomedical Scientists Information technology and administrative duties To contribute to the updating of the Standard Operating Procedures and to suggest changes of practice that would enhance the efficient working of the Department