Associate Practitioner

Up to £32,800 DOE

**Job Title**: Associate Practitioner

**Location**: Barnet Hospital, EN5 3DJ

**Salary range**: Up to £32,800 DOE

**About us**:
**Sonic Healthcare** is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.

**Sonic Healthcare UK** encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
- Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
- Due to the nature of work that Sonic Healthcare UK undertakes, our clients require that Employees filling certain roles, need, as part of their on-boarding to complete a DBS Check. This role falls in to the category of requiring a DBS check (standard)_

**About the role**:

- An opportunity has arisen in the Point of Care Testing (POCT) Department at Barnet Hospital for a POCT Associate Practitioner.
- The successful applicant will be expected to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday covering the service between 9:00AM to 17:30PM as required. This will also involve covering weekends and Bank Holidays when required by the service. You will also be required to attend the following sites: Chase Farm Hospital, Hadley Wood Hospital, Finchley Memorial Hospital and Edgware Hospital as and is needed by the POCT service.
- We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated experienced individual to the role of POCT AP. The post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of POCT devices and analysers they will assist the POCT Manager, Deputy Manager and POCT BMS in the implementation of the Trust wide POCT Policy.
- This includes maintaining specialized POCT equipment, troubleshooting, reagent management, documentation, performance of internal quality control, administration of external quality assessment programmes, delivering and organising training, audits and supporting service users.
- The post holder will work relatively independently, supported by the POCT Manager and POCT Deputy Manager on site to deliver and facilitate training on a range of POCT devices and analysers. Given the outward facing nature of this role, the successful individual will need to have significant POCT experience in the delivery and facilitation of POCT training and good organizational communication skills and be comfortable attending wards.
- At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

- **Training and development opportunities** - supporting professional development
- **Annual performance related salary review**
**- No banding restrictions**:As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling.
- **Discounted gym membership** - we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- **Cash healthcare plan** - cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
- **Sick Pay Entitlement**- 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter
- **Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover**
- **Life Assurance**- providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
- **Employee Assistance Programme**- supporting staff wellbeing
- **Season Ticket Loan Scheme**- interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
- **Perkbox** - Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
- **Company Pension Scheme -** company and staff contributions which increase with service
- **Competitive annual leave allowance** - 28 days
- **Flexible working hours**- 37.5 hours standard working week
- PLEASE NOTE: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THIS VACANCY AT ANY TIME EVEN IF A CLOSING DATE IS SHOWN HERE OR IN ANY OT