Associate Practitioner

5 months ago


Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
The Northern Care Alliance Microbiology service is currently delivered from two main laboratories situated at Salford Royal and Royal Oldham hospital sites; the laboratory at Salford Royal also provides Microbiology services for The Christie under a Service Level Agreement and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust as part of a joint venture (Pathology at Wigan and Salford - PAWS). The formation of the Northern Care Alliance has led to us transforming service delivery for our patients and Microbiology is actively working towards planning a single service model.

As an integral part of the scientific team, you will receive and prepare samples for analysis, enter relevant data on the laboratory computer system, carry out technical investigations, be responsible for running analysers, running Quality Control and troubleshooting, all following established protocols and procedures. This work covers a wide range of sample types and investigations and is essential in the process of diagnosing infections in our patients.

**Main duties of the job**:
If you can show that you are able to work accurately and communicate well, have excellent time management skills, basic IT skills and have a strong commitment to the provision of high-quality services to support the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of infectious diseases and to continuously improve the services we provide to patient care, we really want to hear from you.

There are slight variations in the operating hours across the sites, due to current service arrangements, therefore some flexibility in approach to working patterns is important. An extended day service is operational on both sites, with services delivered 7 days a week; however, as the Trust and the NHS move towards providing 24/7 services to support healthcare delivery, there is an expectation that there will be a future requirement to provide round the clock services in Microbiology.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Diagnostics and Pharmacy Group is part of the Northern Care Alliance (NCA), one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place of science, innovation and transformational thinking, the Diagnostic and Pharmacy Group unites Radiology, Pathology and Pharmacy services across the NCA to create a cooperative group committed to delivering safe, consistent, and high-quality care.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:
**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of basic diagnostic Microbiology techniques

**Knowledge Skills Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of ability to work efficiently & effectively in a team
- Evidence of ability to follow instructions correctly
- Evidence of ability to work accurately and to deadlines
- Effective communicator with good interpersonal skills
- Evidence of attention to detail
- Evidence of ability to work with clinical specimens
- Evidence of ability to work on late night and weekend/public holiday rotas

**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:


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