Pathology Result Interpreter

Job DescriptionPractice Pathology Results Interpreter
**Location**: Workington GP Practice

**Hours**: Full or part time hours available

**Salary**: Dependant on experience and qualifications

**Responsible to**: Service Operational Manager

**Role Purpose**

Workington GP Practice have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join us as a Pathology Results Interpreter. This role will involve reviewing patient test results and actioning these within personal competencies, allocating results to the appropriate clinical staff, contacting patient or adding recall to notes to arrange further tests if needed.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:
The results interpreter will:

- Be responsible for the management and processing of pathology and radiology results on behalf of the practice
- File all normal results
- Allocate results to other departments i.e. screening results and long term conditions like diabetes in a timely manner
- Ensure that any urgent abnormal results are added to the on call so that they can managed urgently by the on call team
- Discussing any abnormal results of concern with a senior member of the clinical team to discuss management of the result
- Prescribers would be expected to action microbiology results e.g. urines, wound swabs etc.
- Non prescriber - Ensure that any results where prescribing is required i.e. MSU, sputum, wound swabs etc. are highlighted to the on call team
- Review results on the ICE Reporting System

Use the Ardens diary recall system for cases where regular monitoring is required for e.g. High Risk Drugs, TSH, PSA
- Input data into the patient’s healthcare records as necessary
- TSH and PSA monitoring
- Code any data on the Emis clinical system
- Contact patients where necessary with their result
- Manage queries as necessary, dealing with callers
- Making appointments for patients when required
- Manage any enquires in an effective manner
- Carry out system searches as requested
- Support all clinical staff with general administrative tasks as requested
- Take part in audits
- Support other members of the practice team as required.
- To work within a multidisciplinary team

**Confidentiality**:

- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

**Health & Safety**:
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others’ health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
- Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
- Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
- Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
- Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)

**Equality and diversity**:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,