Medical Laboratory Assistant in London

You don’t need a Biomedical Science degree to work as a Medical Laboratory Assistant, all you need is a good eye for detail, great communication, and good organisation skills. If you’ve ever wondered where your medical results come from, how it’s done and the impact this has, now’s your chance to find out and support the efforts of the professionals working in this environment.

Here at the Synnovis Blood Sciences Laboratories at Kings College Hospital you’ll be supporting the work of Biomedical Scientists and other clinical colleagues, who undertake various tests and investigations to support the healthcare of patients. These particular posts would suit anyone with an interest in science and medicine but not necessarily with a degree. They are not Trainee Biomedical Scientist positions, please look out for our Trainee posts when available. There are other developmental opportunities for staff who do not wish to pursue academia.

This type of role offers you a steady and secure career which could lead to supervisor or manager level positions down the line and will certainly get you out of the office! You will be working in a fast-paced laboratory environment, which makes for varied, interesting, and sometimes challenging work; no 2 days are ever the same. This role requires covering a 24/7/365 service. You must be able to work flexibly across core hours, evenings, nights and weekends.

The laboratory services are accredited to UKAS 15189 standards and we are also accredited as a training laboratory for the IBMS Certificate of Achievement, Registration and Specialist portfolios. The Blood Sciences Laboratories is based at Kings College Hospital, which has a very diverse culture. There is a wide breadth of clinical specialties associated with this teaching and trauma hospital.

This is a varied role and duties will be dependent on which section of the department or which shift you are working. You will work within a team, consisting of other Medical Laboratory Assistants (MLAs) and Biomedical Scientists (BMS). Main duties include assisting with quality assurance and stock related functions, equipment maintenance and preparing patient samples for analysis using a variety of specialist equipment. You will also be filing and retrieving samples, checking outstanding work files, ordering and managing stock levels; data entry and answering telephone enquiries.

IT systems across the Trust have been upgraded along with some of the analytical instruments in Blood sciences. You will therefore be using some of the most up to date systems available.

Your development and learning: You will have a suite of learning opportunities available through The Synnovis Way Development programme, the Scientific Learning and Development Fund which is used across Synnovis to enable you to reach your potential, learn new skills and achieve your goals. This is managed between you and your line manager in line with your own personal and professional development ambitions. You can apply for finance to drive innovation and service development for the benefit of patients through our Innovation Accelerator Fund.