Job summary
- Main area
- Biomedical Science
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-SL0541
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £23,087 - £25,336 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate practitioner - Community testing
Band 4
Job overview
To support the delivery and operational management of Point of Care Testing (POCT) services across the BSPS organisation, with particular responsibility for supporting LabKit and community-based diagnostic services, ensuring equipment functionality, quality compliance, and effective service delivery.
Visa Sponsorship:
This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the contract.
Main duties of the job
- To maintain POC 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 site where there are POCT devices in the Community and ensure good stock control of consumables and a ensuring a centralised stock is present at other BSPS POCT site.
- Maintain good communication within the POCT team in order to maximise efficiency through agreed priorities and to achieve the aims of Point of Care analysis on a daily basis.
- In liaison with other 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 within LabKit and Point of Care.
- To include departmental audits as necessary.
- To participate in IQC and other quality checks as necessary.
- To participate in the provision of External Quality Assessment services both in house and to external customers.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies to enable an improved and more efficient service.
- Work with other members of the POCT Team to achieve and maintain accreditation against relevant ISO standards and comply with national POCT guideline.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Assist with the delivery and operational running of POCT services across BSPS.
- Provide specific support for LabKit and community-based testing services.
- Maintain POCT devices, troubleshoot issues, and ensure functionality.
- Ensure testing complies with NHS quality, governance, and regulatory standards.
- Support healthcare staff using POCT equipment in community settings.
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- For those without a suitable level 3 qualification the successful candidate would be expected (and supported by BSPS) to follow a course of study / training to gain an equivalent level qualification e.g. NVQ / QCF level 3/IBMS Certificate of Achievement
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Science Degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Involvement in carrying out laboratory testing including co-ordination, evaluation and service development.
- Proven understanding of clinical governance with risk management, its importance and its application.
- Previous POCT and/or laboratory experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of introducing service improvements.
- Training experience.
- Experience of stock control
- Experience of planning workload of other team members to ensure service delivery.
- Experience of supervising junior staff and students and to provide training as requested.
- Able to regularly provide information of a sensitive and emotional nature to staff and service users where there may be barriers to understanding.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to plan and prioritise a complex and unpredictable caseload efficiently.
- Provides & receives complex & sensitive information orally, and in writing & electronically form.
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills to convey complex diagnostic and technical information, overcoming barriers to communication.
- Analysis of complex results and judgement of whether they require further action.
- Interpretation of analytical data.
- Able to troubleshoot & and repair delicate, expensive and intricate equipment.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to plan and prioritise a complex and unpredictable caseload efficiently.
- Accurate IT skills for e-mail and data entry for demographic, request & result entry on to Pathology LIMS.
- Dexterity, hand-eye co-ordination, fine motor skills.
- Manipulation of analytical equipment.
- Work within standard operating procedures and guidelines.
- Take responsibility for assessing ward or department or service requirements and manage workload as appropriate in response to changing demands.
- Able to stand for long periods of time at machines in restricted area.
- Performs accurate, repetitive & precise movements in use of pipettes.
- Light physical effort.
- Able to concentrate on production of accurate data & interpretation of results for prolonged periods when interrupted on a frequent basis.
- Frequent concentration required for analysing data and performance but will be frequently interrupted with requests and queries requiring immediate response.
- Able to cope with occasional exposure to chemical spillages.
- Able to deal with frequent exposure to blood and urine.
Desirable criteria
- Able to undertake basic routine maintenance on expensive instruments
- Ability to communicate complex, contentious and sensitive messages.
- Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with the multi-disciplinary team members.
- Able to undertake basic routine maintenance on expensive instruments
- Computer skills including use of databases, spreadsheets, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other clinical support systems
- Able to regularly provide information of a sensitive and emotional nature to staff and service users where there may be barriers to understanding.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to cope with using VDU equipment continuously on most days.
- Able to travel to any hospital sites as required by the service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Venera Genco
- Job title
- Point of Care Testing Coordinator Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07342061237
- Additional information
David Seeruthun
Point of Care Testing Manager
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services
Tel: 01737 768511 ex 2773 (SASH)
Email: [email protected]
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