Associate Practitioner Healthcare Scientist

4 months ago

Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Eastern Pathology Alliance is a Hub-and-Spoke Network encompassing the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital (Hub), the James Paget University Hospital (spoke), and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn (spoke).

The service comprises Clinical Biochemistry, Toxicology, Endocrinology, Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, collectively known as Laboratory Medicine. The NNUH Hub Laboratory is responsible for the delivery of all community work for the Norfolk CCGs. In addition, Laboratory Medicine is responsible for the delivery of the JPUH and QEH ‘cold’ work, including toxicology, endocrinology and immunology.

The Toxicology and Endocrinology sections of the NNUH Clinical Biochemistry department have been merged to become a large Analytical and Specialist Chemistry section:
The Toxicology sub-section provides a wide range of analytical services, including urine drugs of abuse (for clinical users, employment screens, and post mortem work, including for the Norfolk Coroner’s Office), immunosuppressant drug monitoring, trace element analysis, urine metadrenalines & 5-HIAA, and 25-OH vitamin D. These analyses require the use and maintenance by the Biomedical scientist (BMS) staff of a variety of different methods and analysers, including tandem mass spectrometry, HPLC, and immunoassay.

The Endocrinology sub-section also provides a wide range of analytical services, utilising several immunoassay analysers from various manufacturers (Siemens, Roche, IDS, Perkin-Elmer). The test repertoire includes routine and esoteric endocrinology (e.g. testosterone, oestradiol, DHEAS, SHBG, ACTH, etc.), tumour markers, CSF oligoclonal bands, and is the site of the Supra-regional Assay and Advice Service (SAAS) for Calcium and Bone Metabolism Markers. The section provides the 1sttrimester maternal serum screening service (MSS) for Down’s, Edwards’, and Patau’s syndromes for Norfolk.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

As an Associate Practitioner in the ASC section you will be expected to work alongside the Biomedical Scientist (BMS) staff assisting in the day-to-day running of the analysers, and sample preparation, as required. The main focus of this role is to provide assistance to the BMS in FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) service, this will include; logging patient information, pre-analytical processing of patient samples, and analysis of samples.
- Liaise and communicate with other members of the laboratory team, across the Pathology Directorate and with users of the service including Trust Clinical staff, Primary Care staff, patients and members of the general public as appropriate, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Be aware of and adhere to all Trust policies/laboratory operating procedures/Pathology guidelines when undertaking any activities.
- Adhere to Trust infection control procedures, demonstrating an understanding of cross infection.
- To receive large volumes of specimens, carefully check information and providing it meets acceptance criteria prepare for analysis.
- To be responsible for the preparation of reagents and complex automated analysers for treatment, investigations or procedures as directed by departmental procedures under guidance of an HCPC registered BMS.
- To ensure operational continuity of analysers by replenishing reagents as required.
- To receive large volumes of samples, check and examine electronic and paper requests, accurately select test profiles according to specimen type, clinical details and collection conditions and transfer requests on to labo

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