Medical Laboratory Assistant, Blood Sciences - 1 Mabledon Place, Central London

From £22,900 DOE
About us: Health Services Laboratories (HSL) is a progressive partnership between The Doctors Laboratory, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Free London) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. We combine The Doctors Laboratory’s long standing, specialist pathology expertise with the Royal Free London and UCLH’s internationally recognised heritage of continual research, development and academic excellence. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT. About the role: We have a vacancy for a part-time Medical Laboratory Assistant in Biochemistry at the Halo, 1 Mabledon Place, Central London.. Working as part of a friendly team, this is an excellent opportunity to further and develop your skills, knowledge and experience within this multidisciplinary laboratory. Duties will include undertaking clerical and telephone responsibilities. The role will also involve receiving, identifying and preparing samples, organising their despatch, the storing and retrieval of samples and liaising with appropriate departments. The successful candidate will be a familiar and confident user of laboratory computers and telephone systems and maintain equipment for performing tasks in Sample Reception. You should have good processing and data entry skills. At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

• Training and development opportunities – including the funding of Undergraduate and Masters Degrees and IBMS Specialist Portfolios for Biomedical Scientists

• Annual performance related salary review

• No banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling

• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms

• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians

• Sick Pay Entitlement – 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter

• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover

• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)

• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing

• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket

• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts

• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with years of service

• Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days annual leave

• Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week