Associate Practitioner - Point of Care Testing
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Job summary
The Point of Care Testing (POCT) department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) provides and supports and governs near-patient pathology diagnostic testing conducted outside of the traditional central laboratory.
The BSPS POCT network includes Frimley Health (Frimley Park Hospital, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals), The Royal Surrey County Hospital (Guildford), Ashford and St Peter's Hospital (Chertsey), The Royal Berkshire Hospital (Reading), East Surrey Hospital (Redhill) along with multiple and expanding projects within the community.
Our BSPS team have extensive experience of supporting a wide repertoire of tests and offer expertise to:
- Advise on potential solutions tailored to the clinical requirement.
- Assess the suitability of proposed testing environments.
- Perform comprehensive method evaluations to ensure acceptable analytical performance.
- Deliver initial training and re-certification, ensuring sufficient staff competency to ultimately benefit patient safety.
- Minimise service down-time, by performing maintenance procedures, providing technical support and troubleshooting.
- Provide formal documentation and perform audits.
- Ensure calibration, internal quality control and external quality control performance is maintained.
Our department strives to provide the highest standard of service in line with relevant quality standards to deliver a package designed to bring service users peace of mind and enabling them to produce results they can trust.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and skilled individual, preferably with a background in pathology or POCT. They will assist in the provision of efficient, effective and reliable POCT laboratory services to users within the BSPS network. This includes:
- To maintain equipment as directed ensuring all protocols and quality standards are met
- Work in accordance with departmental policies and standard operating procedures, to maintain high standards of patient safety.
- Able to travel independently to any BSPS site.
- To ensure good stock control of consumables
- Maintain good communication within the POCT team in order to maximise efficiency through agreed priorities and to achieve the aims of POCT analysis on a daily basis
- In liaison with senior staff to ensure the department's quality standards are maintained and to troubleshoot any areas failing to meet these standards
- Participate in the audit of quality control measures, to include departmental audits as necessary
- To participate in Internal Quality Control and other quality checks as necessary
- To participate in the provision of External Quality Assessment services both in house and to external customers
- Work with other members of the POCT Team to achieve and maintain accreditation against relevant ISO standards and comply with national POCT guidelines
About us
Working for Your Organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence,WorkingTogether and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Details
Date posted
06 December 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£27,857 to £30,570 a year per annum, pro rata including HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
151-SL0396
Job locations
Frimley Park Hospital
Portsmouth Road
Frimley
GU16 7UJ
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Frimley Park Hospital
Portsmouth Road
Frimley
GU16 7UJ
Employer's website
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