Site: Frimley Park Hospital
Town: Camberley
Salary: £27,857 - £30,570 Per Annum Including HCAS payment
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services
(A joint venture with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and East Surrey Hospital)
Are you looking for a full-time Associate Practitioner (AP) role? Band 4 position with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the UK. Successful candidate will be based at Frimley Park Hospital site.
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated individual with good scientific background and laboratory experience to complement our existing AP team.
The post holder will liaise with line manager as part of a team delivering high quality protocol based technical service under the supervision of HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist staff and is required to act as supervisor for support grade staff members as agreed with the laboratory management team, and will be expected to train, support and advise less experienced staff, such as trainees, students and medical laboratory assistants.
Essential qualities expected are efficiency, being well-organised, having good communication and leadership skills and attention to detail. Good keyboard skills are desirable. In addition, you should be a reliable individual who is able to demonstrate good practical skills and work as part of the AP team.
You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shift system.
Main Duties of the Job
* Participate in the provision of a comprehensive range of scientific and diagnostic services for bacteriology.
* Liaise with line manager as part of a team delivering high quality protocol based technical service under the supervision of HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist staff.
* Communicate with hospital clinicians, general practitioners, other healthcare professionals, patients and their representatives and commercial suppliers.
* Operate sophisticated, automated laboratory equipment and perform scientific techniques under supervision and report results in accordance with departmental SOPs and as appropriate to grade.
* Act as supervisor for support grade staff members as agreed with the laboratory management team.
* Train, support and advise less experienced staff, such as trainees, students and MLA’s.
* Manage laboratory stock within the department and provide details of stock management to the Lead BMS or General Manager as required.
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.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Effectively deal with simple day to day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate.
* Ensure sample is appropriate type for all tests and assess samples for urgency, informing Biomedical Scientist staff of such samples.
* Responsible for own work which will include all aspects of the technical work, equipment and quality system.
* Work within department with the minimum of supervision as directed by Senior Biomedical Scientist staff.
* Work as part of a team to ensure that departmental performance targets are met by continually assessing priority of work.
* Participate in a range of duties within the department, under supervision or without supervision following successful competency assessment.
* Carry out biomedical procedures including maintenance, monitoring of sophisticated equipment and audit in accordance with departmental SOPs.
* Ensure that work is carried out in line with Standing Operational Procedures and/or Departmental policy.
* Demonstrate a robust knowledge of national and local health and safety standards.
* Undertake any other duties which may be required, which are consistent with the nature and grade of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good education to A Levels, including science subject or NVQ 4 or IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 2) or Foundation degree or demonstrable laboratory knowledge, experience and skills that prerequisite this role.
* Willing to undergo relevant training to ensure sound relevant knowledge.
* ECDL.
Experience
* Experience as a MLA in a diagnostic laboratory.
* Able to perform technically challenging procedures where applicable.
* Ability to develop knowledge and understanding of microbiology techniques sufficient to undertake specimen processing and reception.
* Experience of working as part of a team.
* Some experience of diagnostic microbiology.
Skills & Knowledge
* Good verbal and manual skills.
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures.
* Ability to work independently for periods of time.
* Able to use and maintain equipment.
* Lateral thinking.
* Familiar with the use of computers and able to use a keyboard.
* Friendly and interactive in working group.
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.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
Name: Marcial Navarro
Job title: Site Lead Biomedical Scientist
Email address: marcial.navarro@nhs.net
Telephone number: 03006136958
Additional information or contact:
Catriona Steele (catriona.steele@nhs.net)
Site Lead Biomedical Scientist
03006136958
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