Associate Practitioner

15 hours ago

Salford, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Job Title and Grade**:Band 4 Associate Practitioner

**Location/Trust**: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Oldham Hospital

**Department Covered**: Cellular Pathology

**Pay Rates**:Days: £12.86

**Placement Ref/ID**: NHSP58378

**The Role**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). The NCA FT was formally established on 1 October 2021 and has been working together as a group since 2016.

The Northern Care Alliance Pathology Service is a collaborative between the Northeast Sector (NES) Pathology Service (previously known as Pennine Pathology) and Pathology at Wigan and Salford (PAWS). The service employs more than 600 staff and processes more than 24 million tests each year.

We have long term placement opportunities available for Band 4 Associate Practitioners available at Royal Oldham Hospital specifically providing the following:

- To participate in the day-to-day provision of a high quality, cost effective clinical service.
- Accurately register patient details, test requirements and information relevant to the specimen onto the laboratory computer.
- Receive, sort, identify and assign a laboratory number to pathology specimens delivered to the department by hospital staff, patients, and members of the public.
- Work competently across a range of manual and automated procedures, techniques, and practices, according to set protocols.
- Prepare reagents and samples for automated and manual techniques (e.g., centrifuge, separate and aliquot serum/plasma, plate out specimens for microbiological examination).

**Skills/Responsibilities**
- Good standard of general education
- Foundation Degree in Healthcare Science or Biomedical Science BSc
- Completed full In-House competency log
- Recent IT training, either in-house or qualification.
- Experience working in a Cellular Pathology laboratory
- Ability to work under demanding circumstances and to deadlines.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits:
- **Competitive Pay Rates**:

- work this week, get paid next week
- **First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England**
- **Dedicated consultants**
- **Flexible working options**
- **Free DBS and free training**
- **Build holiday allowance**
- **Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days - **Call us anytime on 03330 144 370
- **Stakeholder pension scheme**

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over **£70 million** each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

**Disclaimer**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

Contract length: 4 months

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: NHSP58378

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 4 months

**Salary**: £12.86 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: NHSP58378

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