Biomedical Support Worker

2 weeks ago

Bradford, United Kingdom Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Full time

BTHFT, ANHSFT and HGH have formed a joint venture, Integrated Pathology Solutions LLP (IPS) to provide pathology services to the three organisations and other local healthcare providers.
- motivated and innovative, with good organisational and practical abilities supported by scientific knowledge. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to support individual and team working is essential. All these skills and attributes are in line with the Trust’s Right Care Behaviours.

Applications are invited for a full time BSW in the Blood Sciences (Haematology, Blood Transfusion & Biochemistry incl. of Point of Care Testing) based at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

The department offers multiple training opportunities and continual professional development opportunities. We are passionate about developing our staff for them to fulfil their potential.

1. Under supervision and following Standard Operating Procedures the following duties may be carried out.
- Undertake in service training leading to the completion of the competency logbook
- Deal with telephone enquiries.
- Liaise with and despatch consumables to service users.
- Solve day to day problems e.g. Mislabelled specimens
- Sort and prepare work for diagnostic testing
- Prioritise and fast track urgent and emergency work, including samples from the Haematology and Lithium clinics
- Input PID and other data into the laboratory computer
- Load urgent samples onto analysers in the main laboratories
- Maintain stocks of reagents and consumables.
- Prepare test materials, such as making up solutions of chemicals.
- Disposal of waste.
- Disinfection and cleaning of equipment and working areas.
- The routine maintenance of equipment.
- When appropriate assist in the training of new staff

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT), Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (ANHSFT) and Harrogate General Hospital (HGH) are high-performing Trusts providing acute and specialist outreach services for local people.

BTHFT, ANHSFT and HGH have formed a joint venture, Integrated Pathology Solutions LLP (IPS) to provide pathology services to the three organisations and other local healthcare providers.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

The trust offers staff benefits include a children's day nursery, restaurant facilities and staff gymnasium facility, there is a Marks and Spencer’s mínimart and Costa on site at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

To participate in an annual Staff Development Review, Continual Professional Development and the educational activities of the Department.
To carry out basic technical duties under the supervision of state registered staff, e.g., basic analytical duties, manual assays, loading and unloading of analysers, and to provide basic maintenance to analysers.
To participate in monitoring Clinical Effectiveness and the audit activities of the Department and to contribute to the Trust procedures and activities in support of Clinical Governance.
To participate in ensuring that the Department complies with the requirements of UKAS ISO 15189:2012, MHRA and other national and international guidelines and standards.
To be able to identify, handle safely, use and store all substances hazardous to health and comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations.
To co-operate with supervisors, managers and other employees to achieve a healthy and safe working environment, to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of other persons who may be affected by your actions, to carry out your responsibilities in ways that help to ensure a safe and healthy place of work.
In the course of your work you are to bring to the attention of your supervisor or manager any situation which reasonably could be considered to represent a serious or immediate danger to the health & safety of any person or any matter which reasonably could be considered to represent a shortcoming in the Trust’s health & safety protection arrangements.
To ensure the security at all times, including the risk from fire, of the Department.
To lift and manoeuvre light goods and equipment in accordance with manual handling regulations and good practice.
To deal politely and efficiently with any enquiries from staff, patients and any members of the public. To work within the Trust Equal Opportunities Policy and p

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