Medical Laboratory Assistant - General Pathology


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£25,272
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Torquay, TQ2 7AA
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	27 Jul 2026
Closing date:	10 Aug 2026

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Summary

Deal with telephone enquiries from medical, nursing, and other healthcare professionals Calls include requests for test results, queries regarding blood sample tube type for a large number of different tests, requests for emergency tests. Any more complex queries are referred to senior members of staff Contribute to a team of medical laboratory assistants and biomedical scientists in provision of an analytical service to Primary and Secondary Care Assist with face to face queries from medical, nursing, other healthcare personnel and the public Removal of blood, urine and faeces samples and request forms from their plastic bags and checking the corresponding data.The samples and request forms are then bar-coded prior to data entry. Thesesamples come from the District General Hospital, General Practice,Community Hospitals and Clinics served by the Trust Perform data entry via Electronic Order-Comms and typed data entry from request forms Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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