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Inderjeet Dhillon

Hayes,UK

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Wexham Park Hospital
Slough
12.2018 - Current
  • Working with the Microbiology team, the primary goal is to process all samples received and urgent samples to run on the analysers
  • Following the SOP for procedures, maintenance and calibrations
  • Pipetting, aliquoting of samples and reagents
  • Analysers used are BD Keistra, Lightcyclers, Vidas, Cheiped, DS2 and Serosep
  • GLP and audit trails.

Teaching Assistant & Exam Invigilator

Smart Teachers & Envision Education
06.2009 - Current
  • I assisted and worked with teachers in the nurseries and primary and secondary classes, assisting with subject lessons set-up and testing their reading abilities
  • Monitoring and helping children in the playground and lunch times
  • Children with sensory and Special Needs for 1:1 guidance.

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospital
Woking
04.2022 - 03.2023
  • Receiving blood and Urine samples for the Immunology department
  • Tracking and storing samples and preparing send-away samples
  • Maintenance logs are completed weekly and monthly
  • I also followed up emails for test requests and queries from other hospitals and GPs.

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Eurofins County Pathology Laboratory
Guildford
10.2021 - 03.2022
  • Receiving and booking COVID samples, processing these samples for the presence of SARs-CoV-2 RNA using a range of specialist techniques and analysers
  • Samples are aliquoted for processing in the CL2 cabinets for analysis of SARs-CoV-RNA and other molecular analytes by RT-qPCR.

HCA, Laboratories, MLA
London
12.2013 - 09.2016
  • Specimen Reception Locum
  • Receiving and booking samples for pathology labs mainly Haematology and Biochemistry
  • Labelling samples and preparing them for analysis
  • Following up and troubleshooting queries such as missing samples or data and patient information
  • Lab wash down and monitor fridge temperatures.

Medical Laboratory Assistant Band 3

Imperial College NHS, Charing Cross Hospital
04.2014 - 09.2014
  • Microbiology
  • Data entry of patient samples, labelling and organising sample batches for pathology departments
  • Using Sun Quest software system for general data entry
  • Booking in samples from Clinics, Hospitals and GP's, sorting them by test based on clinical information
  • Setting up samples manually for analyser runs such as PCR, Sedimax, DS2 and Viper
  • Automated runs for BD Kiestra, Sensitivities and Mycology
  • Assisting BMS in a fast fasted, and pressurised lab, where teamwork and working alone to keep the workflow moving
  • A sense of urgency to process samples within TAT (turn around times) and repeat samples
  • Running weekly IQA when rostered and daily QC's and logging data on a shared network.

Locum

Homerton Foundation Trust Hospital, MLA
Homerton
03.2014 - 04.2014
  • Assisting Specimen Reception with in-coming patient specimens from Clinics and GPs
  • Organising them as per department and prioritising urgent requests
  • Labelling and racking samples, data entry on Winpath and highlighting urgent samples on the system.

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Kings College Hospital
10.2002 - 10.2013
  • Working with a team in Immunology assisting with the Beaker Project as the department has migrated from Winpath to Epic LIMS
  • I assisted with the backlog of work for booking and collecting samples for the analyser run for the BMS.

Sensory Tester

Firmenich UK Ltd
Southall
08.2012 - 09.2013
  • Working with a team of QDA panel my duties was to evaluate a range of products for Innovations fragrances and flavours
  • My task is to make a sensory evaluation using only smells, identifying attributes in a range of products and making comparisons by producing charts and graphs using MS excel.

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Quest Diagnostics
Heston
01.2005 - 03.2012
  • Working in the Haematology laboratory my main role is to assist biomedical scientists with their lab work, and my first task in the morning is to check equipment and material stocks and order new supplies
  • The main workload was clinical trials and diagnostics
  • These included labelling and sorting blood samples for a haematologist, and ensuring the samples were stored
  • To prepare chemical and cleaning solutions for general lab use, other general duties included printing and filing reports and entering patient data, searching for add-ons, lost samples, spare samples and patient history as well as troubleshooting samples for investigation on Winpath and LIMS for diagnostics products
  • Analysers were checked daily by performing routine maintenance procedures on Beckman Coulter Gen-s, Tosoh, Sysmex and Flow Cytometry.

Summary

An experienced Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) with excellent project knowledge, a proactive individual and a supportive team member. Good communication skills and rapport. Multi-disciplined in Haematology, Microbiology, Serology and Molecular departments .

Education

Certified MCP & MCSE Windows 2K - Time Management

B/Tech Science Higher - undefined

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Additional Information

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Timeline

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospital
04.2022 - 03.2023

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Eurofins County Pathology Laboratory
10.2021 - 03.2022

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Wexham Park Hospital
12.2018 - Current

Medical Laboratory Assistant Band 3

Imperial College NHS, Charing Cross Hospital
04.2014 - 09.2014

Locum

Homerton Foundation Trust Hospital, MLA
03.2014 - 04.2014

HCA, Laboratories, MLA
12.2013 - 09.2016

Sensory Tester

Firmenich UK Ltd
08.2012 - 09.2013

Teaching Assistant & Exam Invigilator

Smart Teachers & Envision Education
06.2009 - Current

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Quest Diagnostics
01.2005 - 03.2012

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Kings College Hospital
10.2002 - 10.2013

Certified MCP & MCSE Windows 2K - Time Management

B/Tech Science Higher - undefined

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Inderjeet Dhillon