Data Input Clerk

Job overview

The post holder will work in all sections of the department providing an administration and secretarial service as well as assisting with specimen reception, computerised data entry, retrieval,  form scanning and slide filing.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Cytology team delivering a high quality secretarial and specimen sorting service to the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. To assist the Trust in its delivery of patient care with particular reference to meeting Cancer Plant Targets and National Guidelines for the Cytology Screening Programme.

To assist with the receipting and filing of cytological samples received into the department. Working effectively as a team member, the post holder will contribute to providing a professional clinical cytology laboratory service.

To assist with quality control and quality assurance procedures associated with the receipting and filing processes deployed within the department.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Receiving and signing for samples and other items into the laboratory.

Sorting, numbering and bar coding cytological specimens. This includes identifying and removing samples that are high risk the non-gynae prep lab for further processing.

To enter sample and patient details onto the departmental computer system. This may require obtaining/ verifying additional/ incomplete information from the hospital PAS system and/ or by telephoning sample takers direct.

Filing slides.

To identify and report to senior staff any malfunction of equipment or process.