Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide timely and accurate test results using appropriate equipment, both automated and manual.
2. Conduct routine and specialist Blood Sciences analyses, validation, interpretation, and reporting of results.
3. Maintain complex analytical equipment.
4. Supervise, teach, advise, and inform all grades of staff.
5. Comply with Standards of Proficiency for State Registration.
6. Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with all aspects of Caldicott Knowledge and Personal Development.
7. Build upon acquired technical and analytical knowledge through specialist training and experience.
8. Participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to maintain specialist knowledge.
9. Ensure compliance with local and national standards of work practice, e.g., Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA).
10. Maintain the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform specialized procedures during rotation through specialized laboratories.
11. Participate in Personnel Development Plans and Appraisals.
Communication and Relationships:
1. Assess the suitability and appropriateness of samples received, liaising with medical staff as necessary.
2. Communicate effectively with colleagues, other healthcare professionals, and external organizations.
3. Negotiate with service users to resolve issues that conflict with laboratory service targets.
4. Report and explain results to clinicians, biochemists, and other service users.
5. Provide specialist advice regarding specimen types, investigations, and turnaround times.
6. Guide students, trainees, and newly qualified Biomedical Scientists.
7. Ensure appropriate action is taken in the event of conflicting priorities.
Scientific and Technical:
1. Use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures and authorize test results.
2. Validate results according to POCT Standard Operating Procedures.
3. Check, validate, and authorize colleagues' work as necessary.
4. Monitor performance through internal quality control and external quality assessment.
5. Manipulate materials and objects such as microscopes and pipettes for accurate results.
6. Monitor quality control and reagent logs and utilize resources cost-effectively.
7. Assist with monitoring and managing POCT Data Management Systems.
8. Check and monitor POCT consumables and storage facilities.
9. Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair Point of Care Testing systems across Trusts and Community practices.
10. Participate in flexible working to accommodate service demands.
Resources:
1. Ensure data integrity when entering demographics and results into the laboratory information system.
2. Liaise with IT support to resolve computer system difficulties.
3. Make alternative arrangements in case of equipment malfunction.
4. Monitor and store consumables and reagents in appropriate conditions.
5. Audit fridge/freezer temperature in POCT areas.
6. Authorize the use of transport for exchanging faulty/checking performance of POCT Equipment.
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