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 Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:
**Knowledge, Training & Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of working within a team
- Requires knowledge of specimen types and understanding of information on request forms
- Evidence of ability to work accurately and to deadlines
- Theoretical knowledge to enable processing of patient samples under basic analytical processes
- Evidence of ability to work with clinical specimens
- Knowledge of medical terminology

**Skills & Abilities**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good communication skills
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to work late nights and weekend/public holiday rotas

**Desirable criteria**:

- Good organisational skills
- Commitment to undertaking continuous professional development (CPD)
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

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