Haematology Medical Laboratory Assistant

Integrated Care System; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Medical Laboratory Assistant to join its Haematology team. This role involves supporting Biomedical Scientists by performing essential laboratory tasks in a busy environment, ensuring the delivery of high-quality diagnostic services across healthcare providers.

Qualifications

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good level of numeracy and literacy.
• Familiar with modern IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Undertake basic laboratory tasks essential for Haematology department operations.
• Load samples onto analysers and change reagents.
• Input sample requests.

Skills

Good communication skills

Numeracy and literacy

Familiar with modern IT systems

Education

NVQ 3 in Clinical Laboratory Support

Equivalent knowledge and experience

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Haematology Medical Laboratory Assistant

The closing date is 20 July 2025

We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Medical Laboratory Assistant to support our Biomedical Scientists. This role offers the opportunity to work within a busy and friendly laboratory, supporting the delivery of high-quality diagnostic services to surrounding healthcare providers.

The Haematology Department at King's Mill Hospital plays a crucial role in providing analytical, diagnostic, interpretative, and consultative services to hospitals, clinics, and GP practices.

As a Medical Laboratory Assistant, you will be responsible for undertaking basic laboratory tasks essential for the smooth operation of the Haematology department. This includes loading samples onto analysers, changing reagents, inputting sample requests etc. Your support and contribution will be integral to ensure an efficient and safe service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and person specification attached to this advert for full details of roles and responsibilities of this position.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification attached to this advert for full details of roles and responsibilities of this position.

This post is not a gateway to HCPC registration and the IBMS Registration will not be supported. Interviews will be face to face only.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good level of numeracy and literacy
• Familiar with modern IT systems.

Qualifications

• NVQ 3 in Clinical Laboratory Support (or pending successful completion).
• Equivalent knowledge and experience

Further Training

• The post holder will receive in-service training in Haematology analytical procedures and processes as appropriate

Experience

• Previous laboratory experience
• Substantial time as a Medical Laboratory Assistant (Band 2) during which time an all round knowledge and some specialist skills have been developed

Contractual

• Participates in weekday, weekend and bank holiday rotas as required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust