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Sherwood Forest Hospitals are looking to appoint enthusiastic, highly motivated Medical Laboratory Assistants to join our Pathology team to deliver a ... Role: Medical Laboratory Assistant, Category: Health & Social Care

Medical Laboratory Assistant: (Company Name - Subscribers only)

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are looking to appoint enthusiastic, highly motivated Medical Laboratory Assistants to join our Pathology team to deliver a safe and efficient diagnostic service, ensuring high standards of practice are achieved and maintained.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Data Entry:Accurately and efficiently enter data into the Pathology system.
  • Specimen Handling:Label and process specimens, dispatch them to the appropriate laboratory area, place them on equipment for analysis, or prepare them for delivery to external laboratories.
  • Rotational Duties:Participate in rotas to cover extended working hours, including Saturday and Sunday mornings and Bank Holidays.

Central Services Tasks:

  • Specimen Reception:Receive all specimens and request forms.
  • Data Entry:Ensure accurate and timely data entry.
  • Pre-Analysis:Conduct preliminary analysis of specimens.
  • Results Line:Manage the central results line.
  • Consumables Distribution:Distribute Pathology consumables to users.
  • Report Management: Print and distribute laboratory reports.

Apply now to join our team!

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

19 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7804633

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

Knowledge

Essential

  • Basic IT literacy skills.
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • High levels of accuracy.

Desirable

  • Proficient in the use of data systems.
  • ECDL.
  • Good organisational skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Min 4 GCSE or equivalent
  • Full driving licence

Desirable

  • Laboratory Techniques NVQ level 2
  • Advanced driving certificate

Further training

Essential

  • Clinical Laboratory Support NVQ 2.
  • Laboratory based training.
  • Competency based assessment.

Desirable

  • Customer services.

Experience

Essential

  • Good customer relations.

Desirable

  • Experience of a Pathology environment.

Contractual requirements

Essential

  • Participates in rosters as requested. Shifts may be during any point of 24/7/365.
  • Clean driving licence.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Basic IT literacy skills.
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • High levels of accuracy.

Desirable

  • Proficient in the use of data systems.
  • ECDL.
  • Good organisational skills.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Min 4 GCSE or equivalent
  • Full driving licence

Desirable

  • Laboratory Techniques NVQ level 2
  • Advanced driving certificate

Further training

Essential

  • Clinical Laboratory Support NVQ 2.
  • Laboratory based training.
  • Competency based assessment.

Desirable

  • Customer services.

Experience

Essential

  • Good customer relations.

Desirable

  • Experience of a Pathology environment.

Contractual requirements

Essential

  • Participates in rosters as requested. Shifts may be during any point of 24/7/365.
  • Clean driving licence.