Job Description

Cleveland Clinic London, SW1X 7HY


From 13.85 DOE

Job Title:

Medical Laboratory Assistant (Bank)

Location:

Cleveland Clinic London, SW1X 7HY

Salary range:

From 13.85 DOE

About us:

Sonic Healthcare

is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world's leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

Sonic Healthcare UK

encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. 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:

An exciting Bank opportunity has arisen for an experienced Medical Laboratory Assistant in our Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic in central London. The successful candidate will mainly participate in the weekend rota, including weekend day and weekend night shifts. Full training will be provided in-house and the candidate will join the rota on completion of training and all relevant competency assessments.

This strategically located laboratory is located a few minutes' walk from Victoria station and is surrounded by a host of London's land marks and close to many exciting bars, restaurants and shopping areas.

The laboratory is based within Cleveland Clinic, a prestigious American private hospital that is the first of its kind within the UK. The services offered are still expanding, having been open for almost 3 years now, and there are regular advancements of clinical procedures and equipment. The hospital has 28 ITU beds 8 Theatres plus Cath Labs/ Interventional Radiology and Endoscopy, serving both inpatients and outpatients.

The successful candidate will participate in the routine processing of all pathology (Haematology, Biochemistry, Transfusion, MRSA and COVID PCR) specimens, alongside a BMS at all times to ensure a smooth workflow. It is vital that for each sample the appropriate requested investigations are performed in a timely manner and to ensure that specialised and urgent specimens are appropriately dealt with.

Being part of the TDL regional labs group, staff are supported by and contribute to the other TDL regional labs functions in sharing input into troubleshooting, training, peer auditing, presenting training sessions and supporting company projects.

At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

Training and development opportunities

- supporting professional development

Annual 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 service

Competitive annual leave allowance

- 28 days

Flexible working hours

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.

PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OTHER MEDIA


Vacancy ID : 031909 Closing Date : 25-Apr-2025


Contact Person : Donna Wiles Contact Email : donna.wiles@tdlpathology.com