Pathology Administrator

The Cellular Pathology department processes tissue samples taken from patients for diagnosis of cancer and other conditions. We process over 65,000 cases per year from the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the South 4 Pathology Partnership and other external hospitals providing specialist pathology services across all specialities. We are seeking an enthusiastic, organised person with good communication skills to join our tissue and data pathway administration team in our Histopathology department at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. The work involves processing tissue blocks and slides which come to the department for additional testing or reporting, liaison with pathologists, referral centres, couriers, clinical teams and other services., The main areas of work are:

• Receipt and tracking of both urgent cases for primary reporting, and referral cases from other hospitals
• Booking in cases onto the laboratory management system and requesting tests for technical work and/or distributing to pathologist
• The Cellular Pathology aspect of MDT meetings
• Liaison with pathologists, clinical teams and laboratory team
• Liaison with couriers - booking samples being sent both within the UK and abroad
• Liaison with solicitors requesting clinical material, packaging and tracking the release of the tissue
• Arranging for collection of patient material when patients are taking material for treatment abroad
• Managing generic Cellular Pathology email accounts which contain requests for molecular and other technical tests etc.
• Entering reports into the laboratory management system that are received from outsourcing companies .
• Sending samples out for tests that are not performed in Oxford, uploading the returned report to the laboratory management system
The work must be handled quickly because it is either required for primary histology reporting for initial diagnosis, urgent tests which we perform for other laboratories, and review of reports for MDT for planning of patient treatment etc.

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