Poct Associate Practitioner

3 months ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Band 4

**Main area**
- POCT Pathology

**Grade**
- Band 4

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**
- 164-5352403

**Site**
- QMC

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- Today at 23:59

Job overview

Due to an internal promotion within the Pathology Point of Care team we are looking for a positive, enthusiastic, organised and conscientious individual to join as an Associate Practitioner at Nottingham University Hospitals. This is an exciting role in an expanding team.
The POCT team support different clinical teams with POCT services such as Blood Gas, COVID/Flu/RSV testing, Glucose/Ketone, TEG, Urine dipstick, Pregnancy test, Prom/Partus, HbA1c, ACT, INR, Cholesterol and HIV and some of these meters are linked up to IT data managers. Over 1.7 million patient samples are tested on NUH POCT meters/devices annually.

This is a permanent full-time position and the working hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

The post holder will rotate across each NUH campus as required by the service.

As an Associate Practitioner, the post holder will assist in the delivery of a innovative, quality driven, patient focused service consistent with the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust’s objectives.
Their main role is to provide technical support and training to Trust users of POCT analysers/devices in order to conform to POCT standards and guidelines.
This will be achieved by Performing or Assisting with Quality Assurance Testing on POCT analysers/devices in ward areas and Training and Competency of POCT users.

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the POCT Manager the main duties of the job are:
1. Participate in the operation, routine maintenance and troubleshooting of POCT analysers/devices, including maintaining appropriate records and documentation.
2. Perform or Assist other Trust users with Quality Assurance Testing (Maintenance, Calibration, IQC and EQA) on POCT analysers/devices.
3. Examine quality assurance procedures i.e. internal quality control and external quality assurance results to identify poor performance and report findings to senior staff.
4. Liaise with POCT users, other Trust departments i.e. Clinical Engineering, Pharmacy, etc. or Suppliers of POCT with regards to POCT issues as part of the troubleshooting procedure.
5. Perform or Assist with Training and Competency of POCT users.
6. Production of barcodes and monitoring of IT systems for IT connected POCT analysers.
7. Perform audits as required.
8. Assist with the development of new methods and the implementation of new technology.
9. Assist with the production, maintenance and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures and Competency documents.

Working for our organisation

The NUH NHS Trust is a large, busy teaching hospital comprising of two sites, the Queens Campus and the City Campus with excellent transport services between them.

The Queens Campus provides acute services supporting a very busy emergency service and trauma centre and the City campus supports Clinical Haematology, transplantation, stroke and cardiac services.

The POCT service operates over both sites with a few satellite services

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In addition to the main duties of the job please familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria
- Other science-based qualifications AND/OR ECDL or equivalent ICT qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
- Experience of laboratory work in an NHS or healthcare environment
- Shows ability to understand data from IT systems, some of which may be complex.

Desirable criteria
- Experience in training and competency assessing staff in an NHS or healthcare setting
- Experience of performing audits of healthcare or NHS processes.
- Able to demonstrate NHS laboratory competency at a higher MLA (Band 3) or equivalent AND/OR Able to demonstrate using a variety of laboratory procedures and equipment

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience of providing and receiving complex information in various forms with colleagues, other Trust staff and external suppliers
- Experience of engaging with the public, patients and staff.
- Able to demonstrate teamworking.

Planning and Organisational Skills

Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise and plan work to meet agreed targets
- Able to understand and recognise when to escalate issues/problems
- Has experience of working independently with mínimal supervision

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
- Evidence of handling complex situations requiring analysis eg troubleshooting

Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with databases containing patient / q

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