Pathology Lead

About the role

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced individual to lead the busy multidisciplinary team at the Ramsay Rivers TDL laboratory in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. This is a multidisciplinary 24/7 onsite laboratory that provides Pathology and Blood Transfusion services to several private hospitals in the area.

• Experience in managing an acute biochemistry, haematology or blood science service in a large, complex environment.
• Extensive and demonstrated experience in leadership (motivation, teamwork, delegation, change management).
• Staff recruitment, management, retention and performance management.
• Managing teams, including setting priorities and addressing performance issues.
• Knowledge of maintaining an accredited service, including UKAS/MHRA/CQC registrations and IBMS training standards.
• Demonstrated advanced quality assurance principles and practices.

The successful individual should be flexible, highly motivated and effective team player; methodical, have ability to understand and meet targets and deadlines and strong relationship building, negotiating and influencing skills.

Where necessary, some on-bench working patterns would be required to ensure business continuity, and for in-touch review of the service/departments. Participation in the out of hours on call rota may be required for which there is additional payments.

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.

Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard).