Associate Practitioner
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- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 36
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a full-time, permanent Associate Practitioner role within the Pathology department at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. The successful candidate will perform routine laboratory duties including data entry, chemical preparation, assisting with specimen dissection, paraffin wax embedding, and microtomy. The role requires extensive training and completion of competence-based assessments within a busy, UKAS accredited department. Candidates should have relevant qualifications or equivalent experience and good interpersonal skills.
Key responsibilities
- Carry out routine laboratory duties.
- Perform computer data entry.
- Undertake chemical preparation.
- Assist with specimen dissection.
- Perform paraffin wax embedding and microtomy.
Essential criteria
- Completed a relevant HNC/SVQ 3 (SCQF 7) or have proven equivalent Laboratory experience and competencies.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Professional attitude.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,537 – £31,537 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
258915
Salary:
Band 4 (£31,537 - - £34,303)
Job closing date:
21/09/2026
Job Type:
Healthcare Sciences
Location:
Ninewells Hospital
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
36
Job posted date:
07/09/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Tayside
Department:
Pathology
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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Applications are invited for a full-time, permanent Associate Practitioner post; we are looking for an individual to join our team, working in a busy department at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, which provides a full range of diagnostic pathology services to NHS Tayside.
We are a progressive, expanding teaching hospital department with an annual workload of approx 47,000 surgical pathology specimen and 2,000 diagnostic cytology cases.
Dundee is known as the ‘City of Discovery’ for its culture, which includes the spectacular new V&A design museum on Dundee’s Riverside.
The successful applicant will be required to carry out routine laboratory duties including
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