Total 3 job vacancies by Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Experienced individual required to join our busy department as a Senior Medical Laboratory Assistant. Based in one of the specialist laboratory sections within Clinical Biochemistry at either the Sandwell Hospital or City Hospital site. The laboratories receive a large workload of samples on a daily basis. These samples are referred to us for testing from users all over the country.

The post is full time, 37.5 hours a week working between the hours of 09:00-17:30. Participation in an extended working day, weekend or bank holiday working may be required.

Candidates should carefully review the job description and person specification (PS). Applications must demonstrate how the criteria in the PS are met; this includes full details of all relevant experience and qualifications obtained. Failure to do so may result in a suitable candidate not being shortlisted.

Please be aware that the post will close once sufficient applicants have been received.

This is a support role. Due to the workload and accuracy required the suitable candidate must be able to work under pressure, prioritising their work with excellent attention to detail.

Candidates would ideally have experience of working in an NHS laboratory as a Medical Laboratory Assistant, although this is not essential.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

The following is a generic Band 3 Medical Laboratory Assistant Job Description. Please refer to the specific details in the job overview relevant to this post.

Deal with samples within the section using own initiative and dealing with matters independently where possible, referring to senior members of staff for guidance when necessary. This includes checking all samples before processing for identification, status and suitability for diagnostic investigation.

Perform accurate preparation, pre-analytical and analytical procedures as defined by the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Carry out routine equipment maintenance, calibration and basic troubleshooting on analysers throughout the laboratory and in POCT (point of care testing) locations to ensure correct functioning and to complete log sheets as required.

Prepare reagents, stock solutions and laboratory disinfectants as directed.

Perform quality control analysis according to SOPs to ensure accuracy and precision is being maintained.

Log errors and record remedial action taken

Training of junior members of staff

Supervising junior staff in allocation of duties.

Identifies and expedites urgent and priority samples.

Handles bio hazardous samples and hazardous substances.

Undertakes complex biomedical analysis on sample by using either manual or automated techniques.

To check, locate and process samples identified from work outstanding or overdue lists.

Assist in audit and risk assessment, including audit of appropriate use of POCT equipment.

Organises and carry out glucose tolerance test clinics on both the Sandwell and City Hospital sites. Including; preparing the patient for the test, organising the sample collections from the patient, administering the glucose drink, analysing the samples and recording the results under supervision.

Dealing with telephone enquiries from colleagues, patients, medical staff and others and giving out authorised results according to protocols that protect patient confidentiality.

Undertake general laboratory housekeeping as specified in the SOPs. Including; stock control, ordering, receipt and distribution or storage of stock deliveries and safe disposal of samples and materials according to departmental policies.

To take part in Joint Annual Review (PDR) as directed.

Any other duties deemed appropriate for the role.


This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Sep 2024

A development opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a strong administrative background in the NHS and ideally within cancer services. The PMO Officer post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance works with commissioners and providers to improve the delivery of cancer services across the West Midlands and to ensure patients get the highest standard of care. We bring together clinical and managerial leaders from different hospital trusts and other health and social care organisations across the West Midlands, to transform the diagnosis, treatment and care for cancer patients in our local area.

We are seeking to appoint a Band 6 PMO Officer to work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the West Midlands with project and business support in complex Cancer pathways of care. The role supports the business in driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning and service developments and is designed to build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop a strong service delivery.

The post holder will:
• Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.
• Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
• Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers.
• Be a key member of the team and support a number of business functions such as recruitment and procurement within the team in addition to providing support to the Cancer Transformation Programme.
• Manage the business support function within the team and directly line manage business support staff.
• Receive, log and keep track of Bids relating to transformation funding and ensure that successful bids are monitored to ensure delivery of expected outcomes.

There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.

Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.

Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
• Ensure accurate and open communication and co-ordination with a range of organisations and individuals, researching and drafting correspondence and papers.
• Be a key member of the team and support a number of business functions such as recruitment and procurement within the team in addition to providing support to the Cancer Transformation Programme.
• Manage the business support function within the team and directly line manage the business support staff.
• Receive, log and keep track of Bids relating to transformation funding and ensure that successful bids are monitored to ensure delivery of expected outcomes.

Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively.

Contribute to the information management of performance, taking a lead for specific projects.

Provide coordination of and participate in relevant meetings, reporting attendance and providing information advice and support where requested.

Work with members of the team and key stakeholder to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions.
• Support the development of internal and external communications where required by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
• Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers, as directed by Manager.


This advert closes on Sunday 8 Sep 2024

A development opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a strong administrative background in the NHS and ideally within cancer services. The Administrative Support Officer post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective support service to the West Midlands Cancer Alliance hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.

The key purpose of the role is to provide day to day administration support. In particular the post holder will provide and coordinate administrative and secretarial services: including for example, scheduling and booking the groups meetings and education events, preparing agendas, maintaining contact lists and distributing information in a timely manner, managing enquiries by phone and email, collating papers and information, sourcing data from National IT web-based systems.

Managing the electronic diary for the alliance, including arranging, and changing appointments, prioritising these as appropriate. Working with all team members in the collection of information for performance reporting on relevant team projects. Sorting and prioritising all incoming e-mail, managing the generic inbox and sign posting as appropriate. Acting as a point of contact for teams, dealing and responding effectively with complex queries from stakeholders and passing on relevant information to appropriate team members sensitively and autonomously.

There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and there are over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Are you passionate about improving the lives of people with cancer? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that’s exactly what you will do.

The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight.

Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for further details and information.




This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jul 2024