Biomedical Scientist Point of Care Testing (secondment)
Band 6
Main area: Point Of Care Testing
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Secondment: 12 months
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 344-7487DCB
Site: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
Town: Margate
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
A Full time Band 6 vacancy, 12 month secondment (QEQM), has arisen in the Point of Care Testing (PoCT) department for a highly motivated individual to join the team, providing high quality PoCT across the acute sites in East Kent (EKHUFT). The Team supports a variety of PoCT equipment and assists with the introduction of new devices, to support new services being introduced in clinical areas.
The post based in Pathology involves spending time on the wards, clinics and out patients supporting the clinical areas in the use of PoCT equipment. The role includes: training, maintenance, troubleshooting and monitoring quality performance of devices and users. The role would suit a BMS with an interest in PoCT.
It's an exciting time to be in PoCT as it's a rapidly expanding field. As a Band 6 PoCT Site Lead at QEQM Hospital in Margate, this is an amazing opportunity to help provide an outstanding service to our clinical colleagues and patients - transforming the way healthcare is delivered across East Kent.
Main duties of the job
This role is a Site Lead for the PoCT service for our busy QEQM site that includes A&E, ITU, Paediatrics, Maternity and an Urgent Treatment Centre. This is an opportunity to extend your experience in Pathology and to interact more closely with the clinical areas. The purpose of the role is to support the PoCT Coordinator in the provision of a proactive, professional PoCT service and quality governance framework to ensure patient safety in respect of PoCT activity. This will include device maintenance and troubleshooting, device evaluations, documentation, performance review of internal and external quality control, administration of external quality assessment programmes, training and audit for PoCT devices and line management for the PoCT Rapid Laboratory based in A&E.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
* HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist.
* POCT experience.
Personal/professional attributes/Other requirements
* To be able to work in emotionally challenging areas such as A&E, resuscitation, adult and neonatal ITU.
* Experience of responding to analyser troubleshooting requests.
Governance
* Experience of working to laboratory ISO 15189 standards.
* Previous laboratory experience with analysers and laboratory equipment.
* Awareness of ISO15189:2022 requirements for POCT.
Skills and experience
* Medical device management or experience of working to laboratory ISO standards.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to achieve set targets within a specified timeframe.
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
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