Biomedical Support Assistant – Digital Pathology
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 21 hours ago
City: Blackpool, England
Contract type: Full time

Are you an enthusiastic individual looking to work as part of a busy Cellular Pathology team?
The Histology department is introducing Digital Pathology (whole slide imaging) and we are looking for a person to support the department in scanning the slides and training the staff.
Please note that this role is based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
You will work alongside the existing team to scan the diagnostic slides for training, validation, reporting and MDT discussion, ensuring that the scanned images are of appropriate quality.
To form part of a team responsible for the processing all the samples received each day and to maintain the turnaround times for all patient samples.
To ensure slides are scanned in a timely and efficient manner and cover appropriate duties in the wider pathology department in order to support other staff in learning digital pathology.
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Hamilton Job title: Digital Pathology Project Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07969895738
The Histology department is introducing Digital Pathology (whole slide imaging) and we are looking for a person to support the department in scanning the slides and training the staff.
Please note that this role is based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
You will work alongside the existing team to scan the diagnostic slides for training, validation, reporting and MDT discussion, ensuring that the scanned images are of appropriate quality.
To form part of a team responsible for the processing all the samples received each day and to maintain the turnaround times for all patient samples.
To ensure slides are scanned in a timely and efficient manner and cover appropriate duties in the wider pathology department in order to support other staff in learning digital pathology.
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Hamilton Job title: Digital Pathology Project Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07969895738
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