Lab Specimen Reception & Processing Assistant

University Hospital Southampton NHS FT; City of Salisbury; On-site; AUD 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a Healthcare Scientist Assistant to join the Wessex Genomics Laboratory Service (Salisbury). The role involves handling incoming samples, accurate data entry into the LIMS, and maintaining workflow and housekeeping standards in a busy specimen reception hub.

The successful candidate will support sample receipt, barcode labelling, aliquoting, and dispatch to referral laboratories, while maintaining training records and ensuring

Responsibilities

• Dealing with receipt of samples into the laboratory arriving via staff, couriers, and post.
• Sort, prioritise, match, and apply a unique barcode label to samples and request forms as well as identifying urgent specimens and fast track to the laboratory.
• Input of patient and sample data into the laboratory information management system
• Solve problems related to mislabeled/lost samples and other enquiries.
• Aliquot and dispatch samples to referral laboratories for specialist analysis.
• Maintain a personal training record to demonstrate competence and compliance with statutory and mandatory training.
• Aliquot reagents involved in sample processing.
• Undertake cleaning of equipment and be responsible for maintaining cleaning records.
• Monitor temperatures of critical appliances and rooms and respond to events following correct procedures.
• Deal with the receipt of deliveries including updating ordering records and ensuring correct storage.
• Provide occasional admin assistance as required.

Job description

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a Healthcare Scientist Assistant to join the Wessex Genomics Laboratory Service (Salisbury). The role involves handling incoming samples, accurate data entry into the LIMS, and maintaining workflow and housekeeping standards in a busy specimen reception hub.

The successful candidate will support sample receipt, barcode labelling, aliquoting, and dispatch to referral laboratories, while maintaining training records and ensuring