Job Title: Clinical Laboratory Administration Manager
Department: Molecular Pathology
Location: 1 Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9AX
Contract /Hours: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary range: Up to £47,623.20 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
About the role:
An opportunity has arisen for a full time, Clinical Laboratory Administration Manager in the Genetics and Molecular Pathology Department, based in Central London. Applications are invited from enthusiastic and motivated individuals for a permanent administration manager of this multidisciplinary department encompassing the Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics teams.
Duties will include the management of day to day running of a small administration team. This will include entering patient results onto databases and producing reports, faxing/emailing reports to hospitals/clients and receiving and immediately acting upon incoming calls and emails to the department. Excellent telephone manner and data entry skills are essential. They will work closely with Clinical Scientists and the Genetics team to ensure reports are produced and delivered in a timely manner. They will also liaise with the Finance department to resolve any invoice queries raised by patients/clients.
The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills and administration experience, ideally within a medical environment. Experience in managing staff would be beneficial. The working hours are 08.30 – 17.00pm, Mon – Fri.
At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
- Annual salary review - salary and progression are aligned to our internal transparent pay structure (Progression Plus), supporting career development and structured annual salary reviews
- Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- Sick Pay Entitlement – one month’s full pay and one month’s half pay after probation
- Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
- Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
- Competitive annual leave allowance – 29 days.
- Flexible working hours – we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
We respect and value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from diverse communities.
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