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Are you a motivated and enthusiastic individual looking to make a difference in the field of Histopathology? Join our dynamic team at Sherwood Forest ... Role: Medical Laboratory Assistant (Advanced) - Histopathology, Category: Health & Social Care
Medical Laboratory Assistant (Advanced) – Histopathology: (Company Name - Subscribers only)
Are you a motivated and enthusiastic individual looking to make a difference in the field of Histopathology? Join our dynamic team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals (Company Name - Subscribers only) Foundation Trust!
About Us:Our busy Histopathology department provides essential diagnostic services to the Trust and surrounding community areas. We offer a comprehensive range of tissue analysis to aid in accurate diagnoses, ensuring the best outcomes for patients attending the Trust, General Practice, or private clinics. Our services also play a crucial role in cancer screening programmes.
Your Role: As an Advanced Medical Laboratory Assistant, you will support our registered Biomedical Scientists and be an integral part of our team.
What We Offer:
- A collaborative and supportive work environment
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- The chance to work with innovative technology in the field of Digital Pathology.
Join us in making a meaningful impact on patient care and advancing the future of Histopathology!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning (Company Name - Subscribers only) 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 (Company Name - Subscribers only) 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’ (Company Name - Subscribers only)-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Details
Date posted
09 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
214-CSTO-7496324
Job locations
King’s Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Part time working hours (30 hours per week) working 4 out of 7 days
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic Medical Terminology
Desirable
- Knowledge of Histological Laboratory Processes
Qualifications
Essential
- Min. 4 GCSE or equivalent to grade C or above
Desirable
- IT Qualification
Skills/Attributes
Essential
- Data input skills
- High levels of accuracy
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to contribute to effective team working
- Ability to organise own work to meet required deadlines
Desirable
- Tissue embedding skills
- Microtomy skills
Further Training
Essential
- NVQ 2 (clinical lab support)
Desirable
- Internal Training and experience For Cellular pathology techniques (Equivalent to NVQ 3)
Experience
Essential
- Experience as MLA in a Histopathology Department
Desirable
- Knowledge of scientific terminology
- Previous tissue embedding or section cutting (microtomy) skills
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Part time working hours (30 hours per week) working 4 out of 7 days
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic Medical Terminology
Desirable
- Knowledge of Histological Laboratory Processes
Qualifications
Essential
- Min. 4 GCSE or equivalent to grade C or above
Desirable
- IT Qualification
Skills/Attributes
Essential
- Data input skills
- High levels of accuracy
- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to contribute to effective team working
- Ability to organise own work to meet required deadlines
Desirable
- Tissue embedding skills
- Microtomy skills
Further Training
Essential
- NVQ 2 (clinical lab support)
Desirable
- Internal Training and experience For Cellular pathology techniques (Equivalent to NVQ 3)
Experience
Essential
- Experience as MLA in a Histopathology Department
Desirable
- Knowledge of scientific terminology
- Previous tissue embedding or section cutting (microtomy) skills