Employer: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Location:
Kent
Salary: £18,546 to £19,918 a year pa pro rata
Type: Permanent
Expires: 07 Mar 2022
Job summary
The Microbiology department currently have a number of vacancies for laboratory assistants. We are looking for someone who has an interest in science. All required training will be provided. Please note that this is not a trainee Biomedical Scientist position.
The role will rotate between the pre analytics area assisting with data entry, reception and telephone handling as will also involve various duties rotating between the bacteriology laboratory( processing specimens including swabs and urines) and waste disposal sections of the department.
Main duties of the job
The laboratory is a purpose built facility (opened 2007) and located on the Maidstone Hospital site.
The role is full time 37.5 hours per week between 08:00 - 20:00hrs Monday - Friday on a seven day working pattern.
In return we offer an interesting and worthwhile role within the team and provide all required training. We pride ourselves in being a UKAS ISO 15189:2012 accredited laboratory offering high quality service to hospitals and GPs.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at standardlevel.
We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated.We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients.We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment.We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff.We have 78nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients.We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics
COVID-19 Vaccination Disclaimer for Staff
In order to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites, we require our staff who have contact with vulnerable service users to have had the COVID vaccine prior to starting work. We are required by the Department of Health to provide data to verify your COVID-19 vaccination status and will therefore ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment process. Vaccination will be a condition of employment unless an exemption applies.
Interviews: To be confirmed
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
-5 GCSE including Math, English and Science
Desirable
-NVQ level 2 in business administration
Experience
Essential
-Working as a member of a team
-Previous laboratory experience ( may be educational)
-Interest/awareness of Science
Desirable
-Knowledge of health and safety procedures/legislation
Skills
Essential
-Command of written and spoken English
-Typing speed 35wpm
-Basic computer skills
-Organisational skills
Contact: Donna Murrant
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