Associate Practitioner

Job Overview

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic, and well-motivated individual with a good scientific background to work in Haematology and Blood transfusion departments of Blood Sciences to complement our existing laboratory team in Blood Sciences.

The post holder will liaise closely with the line manager in providing a high quality technical service that builds on the standards defined by the UKAS and ISO 15189:2022. They will be expected to develop and maintain close working relationships with all grades of staff both technical and medical to ensure the effective delivery of the technical service.

We Can Offer

• innovative practices and an inclusive environment where staff feel valued,
• strong personal and professional development,
• a laboratory at the forefront of the national Modernising Pathology agenda,
• forward thinking and team orientated staff.
  
  

This post is currently situated at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.

Main duties of the job

Applicants must have good education to ‘A’ level with a foundation degree in Health Sciences or relevant experience. The successful applicant would benefit from experience of working in a busy Haematology and Blood transfusion departments of Blood Sciences laboratory.

Responsibilities will include day to day management of tasks in your allocated section, training band 3/2 MLA where required, analyser maintenance and IQC, performing diagnostic testing, result entry and to assist in the preparation of SOP’s and other documentation.

This is a shift post and will cover all shifts including consecutive nights and weekends.

Candidates should be well organised and able to work accurately and safely following specified procedures.

Applicants will be computer literate and familiar with general office software.

Full training for this new post will be provided.”

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Technical and Clinical Responsibilities

• Participate in a range of duties within the Blood Sciences department, under supervision or without supervision following successful competency assessment.
• Analyses potentially infectious samples using sophisticated automated equipment to produce results of a quality consistent with excellent patient care.
• Carry out biomedical procedures including maintenance, monitoring of sophisticated equipment and audit in accordance with departmental SOPs.
• Be able to effectively deal with simple day to day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate.
• Demonstrate a robust knowledge of national and local health and safety standards.
• Effectively contribute to the continual improvement of service and identify risks to Biomedical Scientist staff.
  
  

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good education to A Levels, including science subject or NVQ 4 or IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 2) or Foundation degree.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ECDL
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate clearly
• Possess basic IT skills & keyboard accuracy.
• Observant of detail, ability to make basic judgement decisions.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work night shifts
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Confidence within parameters of role.
• Ability to work consecutive nights
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a relevant laboratory.
• Able to understand and follow Standard Operating Procedures.
• Ability to follow laboratory H&S practice.
• Understanding of need for service quality
• Understanding that work relates directly to patient care.
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel across other sites for training, meetings and covering duties.
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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