Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Medical Laboratory Assistant-Cellular Pathology
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Cellular Pathology at Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust
Location: High Wycombe
Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for a dedicated, competent, self-motivated medical laboratory assistant (laboratory technician) to join our friendly team.
About the Role
This post requires someone who can work alongside colleagues to take part in the laboratory rota for tasks such as:
- Cutting up specimens
- Monitoring the main lab
- Throwing out and scanning slides for Digital Pathology
- Assisting Biomedical Scientists in providing an efficient, effective, and comprehensive service for sample preparations
In addition, this post may be required to participate in the retrieval of archived slides and data reports required to enable Pathologists to attend specialty MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team) meetings.
Training and Responsibilities
- Training and Competency: Provided by the laboratory proving laboratory competence.
- Specimen Handling: Receive fresh and formalin-fixed specimens. Know the correct procedure for their safe handling, including High Risk specimens.
- Quality Check: Check the quality of information on both request forms and specimens and assign a Histopathology surgical number.
- Data Entry: Enter details of the specimen onto the cellular pathology computer using the relevant codes.
- Preparation: Prepare the cut-up area for dissection of specimens by either medical or technical staff. Ensure there are adequate supplies of consumables.
- Assistance: Assist at BMS and surgical cut-up; enter details onto cellular pathology computer systems, printing the cassettes with the correct details and checking that the correct number is assigned to the specimen, request form, and cassettes.
- Scanning: To load and unload scanners in the digital pathology suite, slides are loaded onto either the Ultrafast scanner (UFS) or Glissandro scanner, depending on the type of slide used.
- Quality Assurance: Ensuring all slides are macroscopically Quality Checked before scanning, ensuring slides are clean, properly labelled, and that the coverslip is not protruding from the edges of the slide.
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Team Contribution
- Being part of a team ensuring high quality service to all users.
Why Join Us?
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Benefits:
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
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Our Values:
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong.
- We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
- A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
Our Vision and Mission:
- Vision: To provide outstanding care, support healthy communities, and be a great place to work.
- Mission: To provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Care Values: Collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Anna Clarke
Job Title: Head BMS Cellular Pathology
Email Address: anna.clarke11@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 01494 425106
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