• Job Description

  Req#: 31075852

  JOB DESCRIPTION:

  About Abbott Toxicology

  Providing today’s comprehensive drug testing answers, through reliable, innovative and value-focused drug and alcohol abuse screening products and laboratory services, to our customers around the world.

  The Opportunity

  As a Collecting Officer you will join a flexible and motivated regional team, be trained on how to collect legally defensible samples in a number of methods e.g. urine, breath, hair, oral fluid, at customer locations. Collecting Officers are customer focused and having the integrity to follow our chain of custody process at all collections.

  Locations:

  Grantham – NG post code

  Peterborough – PE post code

  Coventry – CV post code

  Plymouth – PL post code

  Croydon/Orpington – BR post code

  Epsom – KT post code

  Woking – GU post code

  Carlisle – CA post code (Scotland)

  Immingham – DN post code

  Hull – HU post code

  Liverpool – L post code

  Birmingham – B post code

  What You’ll Do

  • Conduct specimen collections competently following collection procedures and customer requirements and instructions in order to deliver a quality specimen collection service at customer locations.
  • Provide availability to attend collections during the day, evenings, weekends and public holidays in line with business needs.
  • Participate where there is a business need in a 24-hour on-call rota on an equal basis with the rest of the team and respond to calls immediately and arrive on site within 2 hours.
  • Remain current with process by reading and acknowledging and attending audits at the required time to remain competent.
  • Any other reasonable duties as directed by the management of the business.

  Required Qualifications

  • Educated to National Standards.
  • Good verbal, written and communication skills.
  • IT literate and basic skill in Word, Excel & Outlook
  • A self-motivated individual with a flexible approach to work
  • Ability to follow set processes to ensure the right outcome
  • Driving licence + own vehicle

  Competencies

  • Continual self-reviewing your collections to ensure you meet and exceed customer expectations and feeding back improvements to your Regional Team Leader for consideration.
  • Communicating effectively ensuring customers are aware of the right information and are updated on changes as they occur in relation to their collection.
  • Understand the impact of the actions taken or omissions made within your role and how they affect others both internally and externally. Using this information to ensure you have positive outcomes.
  • Ensuring changes to any process through updates or feedback are implemented immediately ensuring the longer term success of the Collection Network.

  Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

  Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

  What You’ll Do

  • Conduct specimen collections competently following collection procedures and customer requirements and instructions in order to deliver a quality specimen collection service at customer locations.
  • To provide availability to attend collections during the day, evenings, weekends and public holidays in line with business needs.
  • To participate where there is a business need in a 24-hour on-call rota on an equal basis with the rest of the team and respond to calls immediately and arrive on site within 2 hours.
  • To remain current with process by reading and acknowledging updates within the required time frame and attend and audits at the required time to remain competent.
  • Any other reasonable duties as directed by the management of the business.

  Required Qualifications

  • Educated to National Standards.
  • Good verbal, written and communication skills.
  • IT literate and basic skill in Word, Excel & Outlook
  • A self-motivated individual with a flexible approach to work
  • Ability to follow set processes to ensure the right outcome
  • Driving licence + own vehicle

  Competencies

  • Pioneering – continual self reviewing your collections to ensure you meet and exceed customer expectations and feeding back improvements to your Regional Team Leader for consideration.

  • Achieving – Communicating effectively ensuring customers are aware of the right information and are updated on changes is they occur in relation to their collection.

  • Caring – Understand the impact of the actions taken or omissions made within our role and how they affect others both internally and externally. Using this information to ensure only positive outcomes.

  • Enduring – Ensuring changes to any process through up dates or feedback are implemented immediately ensuring the long term success of the Collection Network.

  Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

  Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

  The base pay for this position is

  N/A/hour

  In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

  JOB FAMILY:

  Compensation & Benefits

  DIVISION:

  TOX ARDx Toxicology

  LOCATION:

  United Kingdom > Loughton : Remote

  ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

  WORK SHIFT:

  Standard

  TRAVEL:

  Not specified

  MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

  Not Applicable

  SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

  Not Applicable

• About the company

  Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States.

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