Associate Practitioner Histology

Eurofins Biomnis Ireland is the leading independent provider of Medical Laboratory Services in the country and part of one of the largest medical laboratory groups in the world.

Eurofins Biomnis is part of the Eurofins Scientific Group.

Eurofins Pathology, a part of Eurofins Scientific Group is the leading independent provider of medical laboratory services in Ireland and part of one of the largest medical laboratory groups in Europe. The laboratory provides a full laboratory service from wet tissue receipt, through technical processing and specialist reporting by a team of Consultant Histologists.

We are currently looking to recruit a:

Associate Practitioner Histology

You will receive an overall benefits package, including:

• Financial Security
  • Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Annual Bonus Scheme
  • Company Credit Union Scheme
  • Long Service Award Scheme

• Health & Wellbeing
  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Career Development
  • Higher Education Policy

• Lifestyle & Perks
  • Bike to Work Scheme
  • Tax Saver Travel Scheme
  • Eurofins Employee Referral Programme

As an employer, we’re keen to look after our people with as much dedication as they look after our clients and their colleagues. We are a diverse company with 31 nationalities, encouraging inclusiveness and instilling a sense of belonging to all our colleagues. In the spirit of supporting and improving the health and well-being of our employees, building resilience, confidence and compassion through education and activities, our "Wellbeing Committee" was founded. "The Wellbeing Committee" plans activities, promotes participation, represents employees from all organizational levels, and creates and maintains open lines of communication between wellness committees and employees.

You will also have the opportunity to take part in our monthly “Lunch & Learn” CPD luncheon talks where any member of the team or guest speakers give a presentation. 

We’re a growing and ambitious company, so there is huge potential here to develop with us and enjoy fantastic rewards in your career.

Specific Tasks:

• Use of Laboratory Information Management Systems in place in the laboratory.
• Associate Practitioners work under one of three levels of supervision (direct, indirect, remote). The level of supervision is determined by the Chief Biomedical Scientist and is based on the competency of the Associate Practitioner in performing a specific process /test.
  • All Associate Practitioners work under direct supervision when training in the microtomy, block check, embedding, and immunohistochemistry set-up benches. Direct supervision means a trained and competent Medical Scientist is in direct proximity to the Associate Practitioner trainee.
  • After completing a training program and being deemed competent by the Chief Biomedical Scientist and the Consultant Head of Department, or their deputy, the trainee may perform microtomy, embedding, block check, and immunohistochemistry set-up under indirect supervision. Indirect supervision means a trained and competent Medical Scientist is on site and is available should the Associate Practitioner need their guidance.
  • Remote supervision is reserved for immunohistochemistry set-up. Once an Associate Practitioner is trained and deemed competent in the set-up of the immunohistochemistry processor, any queries they may have may be answered remotely (i.e. via telephone) by a trained and competent Medical Scientist.
• The Associate Practitioner may perform clerical and laboratory aide duties. These duties do not require the same level of supervision as when performing duties in routine histology processing.
• To advise of any equipment failures or problems encountered in the course of carrying out his/her duties.
• Reporting of incidents (Incident report).
• Reagent preparation.
• Assist in maintaining reagent stocks.
• Sample preparation in accordance with SOP’s.
• QC result data entry.
• Maintenance of instrumentation.

Working Hours: 37.5 Hours p/w

Education

• Relevant science diploma / degree or have completed the state exams qualification requirements in country of training

Experience

• Previous experience in similar role but not mandatory (can be trained in-house post qualification)

Skills and Abilities

• Candidates must have the personal competence and capacity to properly discharge the duties of the role

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR €6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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                                        Eurofins Pathology is an Equal Opportunities Company.