Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Laboratory Assistant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7300948
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medical Laboratory Assistant - Histology Band 2
NHS AfC: Band 2
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
Integrated Pathology Solutions LLP is an innovative joint-venture pathology service between Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. This partnership delivers a high quality pathology service through collaboration between three Trusts for the benefit of patient and service users.
The Department of Histopathology is looking to appoint two Medical Laboratory Assistants at a Band 2 level. The individuals would form part of the Histology team alongside Biomedical Scientists, the General Manager and Clinical colleagues and would be integral to maintaining the workflow of the laboratory.
The successful candidates would be provided with support and training to ensure that allocated tasks are performed with confidence and competency with the understanding that guidance and reassurance is always at hand.
Main duties of the job
The selected candidates will be expected to perform routine daily tasks which include receipt of pathological specimens, assisting with the pathological dissection of tissue, input of data, block and slide filing. In addition to the retrieval and filing of blocks and slides from St Lukes Hospital and the daily maintenance of equipment and machinery used.
The Department of Histopathology is ISO15189:2012 accredited and is also a recognised HCPC / IBMS training laboratory.
The successful candidates will rotate throughout the laboratory inclusive of both Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and participate in activities in each area.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Science, English or equivalent level qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience not essential as in house training will be provided
Desirable criteria
- Experience of following SOP’s
- Previous Laboratory experience
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to take part in working rotas as required by the service including late shift, weekends and bank holidays
- Flexibility in working hours to suit the needs of the service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Boyle
- Job title
- Cross Site Lead, Histopathology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 293448
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