United Kingdom Job Openings

Health Services Laboratories (HSL)

Associate Practitioner

London

FULL TIME

August 13, 2024

Up to £32,800 DOE

Job Title: Associate Practitioner

Location: Northwick Park Hospital, HA1 3UJ & Central Middlesex Hospital , NW10 7NS.

Salary: Up to £32,800 DOE

About us:

Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical 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:

A vacancy has arisen for a Fixed term Associate Practitioner in the Clinical Biochemistry department at our Northwick Park and Central Middlesex hospital laboratories. You will be expected to assist senior staff to monitor service delivery and be involved in maintain turnaround times and service improvements, including training of other staff members.

Main Duties:

Duties will include sorting, checking, labelling, and running Biochemistry blood test samples, set-up, and quality control of a range of laboratory equipment and maintenance of records and reports.

The role will also include taking telephone enquiries in the laboratories and maintaining the laboratory as a clean, tidy, and safe environment in which to work.

The laboratory operates a 24/7 service and the successful candidate will be expected to participate in all shift work which includes day shifts, late shifts, Nights and weekends.

The successful candidate will ideally be a confident user of computer systems with accurate data entry and processing a pre-requisite with excellent attention to detail and a careful and tidy attitude to their work.

The Laboratory is responsible for servicing the Biochemistry and Virology pathology needs of a large GP catchment area, and the London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (one of the largest integrated NHS Trusts in the country). The Biochemistry department is divided across 2 sites Northwick Park Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital, both of which have excellent to Central London. We are UKAS accredited and a recognised HCPC / IBMS training laboratory for both registration and specialist portfolios.

You will be working 37.5 hrs per week on a 24/7 shift pattern which includes early, lates and nights. Salaries are comparable with agenda for change pay scales dependant on experience.

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

Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development

• 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 service

Competitive annual leave allowance - 28 days

Flexible working hours – 37.5 hours standard working week

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. but if it is not apparent from the CV that you are living and working in the UK, please provide details of you “Work Rights” and include this in your application.

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 :

026746

Closing Date :

27-Aug-2024

Contact Person :

Aristides Mapouras

Contact Email :

ari.mapouras@tdlpathology.com

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