Medical Laboratory Assistant-Cellular Pathology

Cellular Pathology Role at Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust

Cellular pathology at Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust, based at High Wycombe, is looking for a dedicated, competent, self-motivated, medical laboratory assistant (laboratory technician) to join our friendly team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside colleagues to take part in laboratory rota for – cut up, monitoring main Lab, throw-out, and scanning slide for Digital Pathology.
• Assist the Biomedical Scientists in the provision of an efficient, effective, and comprehensive service for sample preparations.
• Participate in the retrieval of archived slides and data reports required to enable the Pathologists to attend specialty MDT’s (Multi-Disciplinary Team) meetings.
• Training and competency will be provided by the laboratory proving laboratory competence.

Duties

• Receive fresh and formalin fixed specimens. Know the correct procedure for their safe handling including High Risk specimens.
• Check quality of information on both request form and specimen and assign a Histopathology surgical number.
• Enter details of the specimen onto the cellular pathology computer using the relevant codes.
• Prepare the cut up area for dissection of specimens by either medical or technical staff.
• Ensure there are adequate supplies of consumables.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure 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.
• Being part of a team ensuring high quality service to all users.