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Collecting Officer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Educated to National Standards
  • Good verbal, written and communication skills
  • IT literate and basic skill in Word, Excel, Outlook
  • Driving licence + own vehicle

Responsibilities

  • Conduct specimen collections competently following collection procedures and customer requirements
  • Provide availability to attend collections during the day, evenings, weekends and public holidays
  • Participate in a 24-hour on-call rota and respond to calls immediately
  • Remain current with processes by attending audits and acknowledging updates

Key facts

Other skills

  • Customer Service
  • Computer Literacy
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Physical Flexibility
  • Self-Motivation

About the company

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Abbott

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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers, on Instagram @AbbottGlobal, and on Twitter @AbbottNews. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryHealth Care
Company size10001

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Job description

     

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.

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

     

     

     

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