Associate Practitioner
6 days ago
**JOB TITLE**: Associate Practitioner
- **BAND**: AfC Band 4
**BASE**: Your primary base will be Leicester Royal Infirmary, however
travel between UHL’s hospital sites will be required
**HOURS**: 37.5 per week
**REPORTS TO**: Advanced Specialist/Team Leader Biomedical Scientist
**ACCOUNTABLE TO**: Deputy Service Manager
**Working pattern**:
Shifts covering 24/7 working. 37.5 hours on average per week
We have an exciting opportunity for people with a Foundation degree or equivalent who want to work as an Associate Practitioners in the Blood Sciences Department. Full training will be given.
You will be a well motivated team member who is able to prioritise and work on your own initiative with mínimal supervision. You must be able to demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills, have a flexible approach and be capable of working accurately and efficiently under pressure.
There will possibly be a requirement to work on any of Leicester’s 3 hospital sites, any time over a 24/7 period.
CPD is actively encouraged.
We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.
Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.
Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:
- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together
Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.
**Technical/scientific**: Undertake routine and non-routine tests or activities as identified by individual laboratories, up to but not including the point of authorisation, with exception of auto-authorised procedures. Work to standard operating procedures. Use scientific knowledge to recognise incorrect results and take action to correct errors. Be able to perform
laboratory tests requiring a high degree of manual dexterity.
**Equipment maintenance**: Responsible for monitoring and performing daily, weekly and monthly maintenance of centrifuges, automated analysers and other laboratory equipment, ensuring that logs are completed by all staff. Check the safety and functioning of all equipment perform simple troubleshooting and report malfunctions to BMS staff.
**Stock Control**: Maintain sufficient stocks of reagents, supplies etc. for the day-to-day operation of the laboratory. Maintain stock control records and order more stock where a system has been set up for this. Liaise with senior staff and Pathology stores staff to ensure deliveries are correct and received on time.
**Information and IT**: Ensure that the Standard Operating Procedures for own work area are kept up to date and displayed appropriately. Assist in proposing, developing and implementing new procedures. Use word processing and spreadsheet packages to produce draft SOPs, audit reports and laboratory data.
**Planning**: Plan and organise own workload and may be required to assign work to Biomedical assistants.
**Supervisory**: Participate in the training of new biomedical assistants and associate practitioners. Supervise biomedical assistants and less experienced staff, allocating work, training, etc.
**Audit**: Perform audits as required by Senior BMS staff or the Laboratory Manager.
**Quality**: Perform quality control as appropriate and report any out of consensus results to BMS staff.
**Other**: Perform other technical duties as required within post-holder’s training and competence.
To perform any other duties required by the Laboratory Manager or Head of Department commensurate with grade.
Once competent the post-holder may be required to participate in the extended day, night, week-end and bank holiday rosters.
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