Job summary
- Main area
- Histopathology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Working 5 out of 7 days
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working 5 out of 7 days)
- Job ref
- 214-CSTO-7333265
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Salary
- £24,465 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Medical Laboratory Assistant - Histopathology
NHS AfC: Band 2
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated Medical Laboratory Assistant to join our Histopathology team within the Pathology Department at King’s Mill Hospital
The Histopathology department provides a wide range of tissue analyses to aid diagnosis that facilitates the appropriate outcome for patients attending the Trust, General Practice or private clinics. This includes the diagnostic phase of cancer screening programmes.
An element to the role will be to support the mortuary with admission and release tasks, however, the main role will be within the laboratory areas.
The overriding purpose is to support the department in the delivery of sample analysis, whilst supporting the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person specification
Knowledge requirements
Essential criteria
- Understands Basic laboratory Practice
Desirable criteria
- Histology Terminology
- Scientific Terminology
- Understands the functions/environment of a mortuary
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 GCSE at Grade C or above
Skills/Attributes
Essential criteria
- Data input skills
- High levels of accuracy
- Ability to organise own work to meet required deadlines
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to contribute to effective team working
- Manual Handling
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work experience within the NHS or a similar work environment
Further Training
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 2 (Clinical Laboratory Support)
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Full time working 37.5 hours per week to work 5 out of 7 days (equivalent if working part time hours)
Desirable criteria
- Able to participate in a mortuary out of hours rota
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Leanne Milnes
- Job title
- Cellular Pathology Training Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
- Additional information
ext 6221
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