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Poct Associate Practitioner

3 months ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

The Pathology Point of Care Testing team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and conscientious individual to join as an Associate Practitioner.

This full-time position is for a 9 -month, fixed-term basis to provide maternity cover, working Monday to Friday (9am to 5pm).


There is a wide variety of POCT devices in use across NUH, from dipsticks and lateral flow tests to more complex benchtop analysers.

Over 1.

7 million patient POCT tests are run at NUH annually, with over 500 POCT devices that include:

Blood Gas analysers

Glucose/Ketone meters

INR meters

Urinalysis meters

Haemoglobin meters

HbA1c analysers

ACT meters

TEG analysers

Rapid Flu/RSV/Covid PCR analysers

Cholesterol meters

Dipstick/lateral flow tests - urine dipsticks, pregnancy tests, PROM, Partus, HIV and pH sticks.

The POCT team provide support to clinical teams at both Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital. The post holder will rotate across each NUH campus as required.

The post holder will assist in the delivery of innovative, quality driven, patient-focused service consistent with the Trust's objectives.

Their main role is to provide technical support and training to Trust users of POCT devices in order to conform to POCT standards and guidelines.

This will include performing or assisting with quality assurance testing on POCT devices in ward areas and providing training and competency certification of POCT users.

Under the direction of the POCT Manager the main duties of the job are:

  • Participate in the operation, routine maintenance and troubleshooting of POCT analysers/devices, including maintaining appropriate records and documentation.
  • Perform or assist other Trust users with Quality Assurance Testing (Maintenance, Calibration, IQC and EQA) on POCT analysers/devices.
  • Examine quality assurance procedures i.e. internal quality control and external quality assurance results to identify poor performance and report findings to senior staff.
  • Liaise with POCT users, other Trust departments i.e. Clinical Engineering, Pharmacy, etc. or Suppliers of POCT with regards to POCT issues as part of the troubleshooting procedure.
  • Perform or assist with training and competency of POCT users.
  • Production of user barcodes and monitoring of IT systems for IT-connected POCT analysers.
  • Perform and assist with service audits as required.
  • Assist with the development of new methods and the implementation of new technology.
  • Assist with the production, maintenance and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures and Competency documents.


The NUH NHS Trust is a large, busy teaching hospital comprising of two sites, the Queens Campus and the City Campus with excellent transport services between them.


The Queens Campus provides acute services supporting a very busy emergency service and trauma centre and the City campus supports Clinical Haematology, Transplantation, Stroke and Cardiac services.

The POCT service operates over both sites with a few satellite services

In addition to the main duties of the job please familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert