Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

• The post holder will work as a member of the Cellular Pathology team providing data, scientific and technical services used for the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
• This department consists of Histology, Diagnostic non-gynae cytology and the mortuary.
• Where appropriate the post holder will work under the guidance of more experience staff in undertaking the scientific tasks in most sections of the department.
• Assisting senior staff in   training of new staff as required.
• The post holder will be expected to ensure the effective delivery of a high quality service that meets the needs and requirements of all users, meeting the requirements to maintain continuing accreditation with UKAS ISO 15189 and continuing compliance with other statutory and non-statutory bodies.

Main duties of the job

- Assist and support registered Biomedical Scientists in providing a professional laboratory service to all users. 

- To carry out duties with supervision that may require decision making but always with reference to senior or clinical staff.

- To work in a designated area of the department under supervision of a section leader but, organise own work activities to ensure all work is completed to the appropriate quality and timely standard, 

-Work in accordance with SOP’s to ensure consistent delivery of a high quality histopathology and diagnostic non gynae cytology service.

- Assist BMS and consultant staff at surgical specimen assessment.

-To sort and label specimens quickly and accurately and know how to follow policy on mislabelled and mislaid specimens.

-To undertake such other duties as may be required from time to time consistent with the responsibilities of the grade.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are: 

- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients