NHS Opportunity: Medical Laboratory Assistant

Medical laboratory assistant Current Vacancies

2006-11-27:

Medical laboratory assistants (MLAs), sometimes known as clinical support workers, work throughout the NHS on wards, or in clinics and laboratories, providing support to biomedical scientists, pathologists, clinical scientists, and medical staff.
Their main duties include preparing chemical and biological solutions and disposing of waste, labelling, sorting and analysing tissue and fluid samples, separating blood serum and plasma, loading samples and operating machines, and using a computer to analyse data.
histopathology examining the structure of diseased tissue - haematology analysing diseases of the blood and blood forming tissues.
MLAs can combine working as an assistant with another area of work such as Phlebotomy.
Phlebotomists may work towards the NVQ in Health Blood Donor Support level 2 or 3 which include units relevant to this field.
MLAs can work in the blood transfusion service, hospitals, public health service laboratories or research laboratories.
Medical laboratory assistants work 37.5 hours a week, which may include some evening or weekend work. Part-time work may be available.
Medical laboratory assistants can progress into different roles.
Most MLAs work in NHS hospitals, however, phlebotomists for instance may find similar work in the blood transfusion service, university laboratories, and government research departments.More experienced medical laboratory assistants can earn 14,300.
Senior assistant technical officers at the top of the pay scale earn around 17,000. (Permalink)

National Blood Service

2007-05-04: Welcome to the National Blood Service Careers Pages. Job Reference: Wellcome Trust/National Blood Service Research Fellowships are available now! Recruitment Code of Practice - National Blood Service / Wellcome Trust. Stage 1 The information contained in your
application form is matched against the relevant criteria contained in the Person Specification for the post. Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 1 Application Pack and Completing the Application form. Guidance notes for completing the application form: Stage 2 Shortlisting and Invitation to Interview. Stage 3 Offer of Employment - Stage 4 Vacancies for NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) ,
UK Transplant , National Blood Service. Donor Services Brentwood 22,886 - 31,004 p.a. Permanent - Donor Services Colindale 22,886 - 31,004 p.a. Permanent - Donor Services Tooting 22,886 - 31,004 p.a. Permanent - Donor Services Brentwood 22,886 - 31,004 p.a. Permanent - Donor Relations Manager. Donor Services Manchester Starting at 19,166 pa Permanent - The National
Blood Service is an integral part of the NHS, collecting and processing 2 million blood donations a year. The National Blood Service is an integral part of the NHS, collecting and processing 2 million blood donations a year. Donor Carer. The National Blood Service is an integral part of the NHS, collecting and processing 2.5 million blood donations a year. Donor Services Southampton Starting 19,166 pa
Permanent - Donor Services National Starting 14,037 pa Permanent - Services to Donors Milton Keynes 22,886 - 31,004 pa Permanent - Donor Services Reading Starting 14, 037 pa Permanent - Donor Carer / Driver. Services to Donors Southampton 12,177-15,107 pro rata Permanent. To Gill Travis, National Resourcing Manager, Sheffield Recruitment Unit, NHS Blood and Transplant, Longley Lane, Sheffield, S5 7JN or e mail: gill.travis@nbs.nhs.uk.. Interested persons should apply to NHS Recruitment Unit at http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/jobs_about.html (Permalink)