Pathology Team Manager — Fast‑Growing Lab & Development

Synnovis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Synnovis is recruiting a Team Manager to lead the specimen reception teams within Blood Sciences at King’s College Hospital, London. The role focuses on coordinating staff rotas, maintaining service delivery and supporting training to ensure high-quality pathology workflows.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week), with occasional out-of-hours shifts. Based at the Denmark Hill site, it requires strong communication, organisation and adherence to SOPs and ISO 15189 standards.

Qualifications

• Good all-round education to GCSE standard including English and Maths at grade 4/C or equivalent or L2 Healthcare Science apprenticeship
• A Levels or Level 3/4 vocational qualification, City & Guilds or L4 Healthcare Science Apprenticeship or equivalent experience
• Willingness to attend relevant courses and undertake training as required such as Management qualification or relevant degree

Responsibilities

• Handle and manage samples, in line with SOPs and assessed competencies.
• Organise day-to-day tasks, identifying and prioritising urgent work to ensure that deadlines are met, and to the highest standards possible. Escalate to senior member of staff, as necessary.
• Ensure rota is covered and implement plans to reassign work or cover gaps as required.
• Perform and supervise cleaning activities, prepare pre-analytical equipment, perform daily checks, environmental monitoring and waste management activities, and complete all required paperwork.
• Prepare specimens and perform manual, semi-automated and fully-automated processes within training parameters and where appropriate under supervision.
• Work with Training Lead and ensure appropriate competency training is delivered.
• Demonstrate professionalism, patience and empathy when explaining technical issues, in particular when communicating with people who do not share the same level of knowledge or understanding.
• Undertake preventative maintenance and troubleshooting on pre-analytical instruments and equipment.
• Safely handle, use and dispose of biological specimens including infectious material or hazardous chemicals according to laboratory and health and safety protocols.
• Understand hazards and risks of working in a laboratory and use adequate precautions and personal protective equipment at all times.
• Ensure all laboratory samples, consumables and equipment are appropriately stored and maintained in line with SOPs, health and safety guidelines and recording protocols.
• Use departmental resources efficiently and apply good stock management of reagents, consumables and stationery. Receipt and unpack new deliveries and advise/order when approaching minimum stock levels.
• Supervise MLAs by mentoring and ensuring performance is in line with laboratory standards.
• Report and record all incidents and adverse events under the direction of the senior members of staff.
• Participate in quality management activities including inspections, audits and maintaining ISO 15189 accreditation, as required.
• Answer the telephone, deal with calls politely and professionally, escalating requests when necessary to appropriate senior staff or departments.
• Adhere to the SOPs and work with the team to review working practice to maintain a high quality and safe service.
• Perform specimen reception duties including checking details, receiving and logging patient requests on to the LIMS.
• Process referral specimens, receive samples dispatched from other laboratories and prepare samples for dispatch to other laboratories or hospitals.
• Seek practical advice from more experienced colleagues, including alignment with requirements of accreditation bodies and local management processes.
• Use LIMS to accurately record sensitive patient information, requiring frequent, long periods of concentration, whilst always maintaining patient confidentiality and following Information Governance (IG) guidelines.
• Complete any assigned laboratory administrative tasks including but not limited to: stock monitoring and ordering, logging of operational performance data.

Skills

Good communication skills

Deadline-driven

Cross-professional communication

Technical lab skills

Health & Safety knowledge

Education

GCSE English and Maths

L2 Healthcare Science apprenticeship

A Levels or Level 3/4 Healthcare Science Apprenticeship

Job description

Synnovis is recruiting a Team Manager to lead the specimen reception teams within Blood Sciences at King’s College Hospital, London. The role focuses on coordinating staff rotas, maintaining service delivery and supporting training to ensure high-quality pathology workflows.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week), with occasional out-of-hours shifts. Based at the Denmark Hill site, it requires strong communication, organisation and adherence to SOPs and ISO 15189 standards.