Eurofins
Medical Lab Assistant
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Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured, and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.
If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.
Job Description
Working hours: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00. Occasional Saturdays may also be required.
As a Medical Lab Assistant within Blood Sciences, you will prepare samples for analysis using the current laboratory protocol, to assist Associate Practitioners in maintenance and preparation of equipment.
Main Duties
- Specimen collection, registration, and preparation
- Receive, sort, and identify specimens received.
- Register patient details and tests required on the laboratory computer system.
- Prepare samples where appropriate for analysis.
- Enter request on the laboratory LIMS and prepare samples for analysis under supervision of the BMS(s).
- Operate equipment such as loading centrifuges and automated equipment and use of pipettes and computer terminals in accordance with the laboratory SOPs.
- Maintain laboratory and ensure workbenches are clean and tidy.
- Safely handle and dispose of blood, urine, or other biological material or hazardous chemicals.
- Prepare referral samples for external laboratory analysis.
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Qualifications
- Educated to GCSE Level.
- Numerate and literate.
- Computer literate.
- Able to communicate and work within a team.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to work without close supervision.
- Ability to work to deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow procedure.
Additional Information
Benefits
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating, and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognize our colleagues' special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
- Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
- Company Pension Plan
- Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption, and Paternity Schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
- Health Cash Plan
- Health and Wellbeing Programmes
- Free parking
- Worldwide career opportunities
We also have in place rewards recognizing the great work of our employees, their dedicated service, and celebrating special life events.
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Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit, you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment center or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.
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As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date, unfortunately, on this occasion, your application has been unsuccessful.
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
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