(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) - Band 4 position with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the UK? You will be based at Frimley Park Hospital.
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated individual with a good scientific background to complement our existing AP team.
The post holder will liaise with the 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. They will be expected to train, support, and advise less experienced staff, such as trainees, students, and MLAs.
Essential qualities expected are efficiency, being well organized, having good communication skills, and attention to detail. Good keyboard skills are desirable. In addition, you should be a reliable individual who can demonstrate good practical skills and work as part of the AP team.
Main duties of the job
To participate in the provision of a comprehensive range of scientific and diagnostic services for bacteriology. The diagnostic work of the bacteriology department includes the appropriate processing and handling of body fluids and materials, including high-risk specimens. The post holder will liaise with the line manager as part of a team delivering high-quality protocol-based technical service under the supervision of HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist staff. The post holder will be required to communicate with hospital clinicians, general practitioners, other healthcare professionals, patients and their representatives, and commercial suppliers. The post holder will be required to operate sophisticated, automated laboratory equipment and perform scientific techniques under supervision and to report results in accordance with departmental SOPs and as appropriate to grade. The post holder 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 MLAs. The post holder will be required to manage laboratory stock within the department and provide details of stock management to the Lead BMS or General Manager as required.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. 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 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 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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care, and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job responsibilities
* Be able to effectively deal with simple day-to-day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate.
* Works in cooperation with BMS staff to ensure workload is processed in a timely and efficient manner.
* Ensures efficient use of resources and is aware of stock levels and rotation, storage conditions, batch numbers, and expiry dates, thus ensuring the viability of reagents and/or blood products used.
* Ensures appropriate stock levels are maintained in own area of operation, which may include issuing stock to external departments and GP surgeries, and ordering stock from external suppliers under supervision.
* Communicates effectively with other staff groups, both internal and external, including healthcare professionals, transport and courier staff, patients and their representatives, and commercial suppliers.
* Provides supervision, training support, and assistance to newly staff as appropriate (including the demonstration of procedures to less experienced staff).
* Analyses potentially infectious samples using sophisticated automated equipment to produce results of a quality consistent with excellent patient care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good education to A Levels, including a 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.
Experience
* Experience as a MLA in a diagnostic laboratory.
* Able to perform technically challenging procedures where applicable.
* Experience of working as part of a team.
Skills and Knowledge
* Good at multi-tasking.
* Good verbal and manual skills.
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures.
* Lateral thinking.
* Familiar with the use of computers and able to use a keyboard.
* Friendly and interactive in working group.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Site Lead Biomedical Scientist (Haematology)
£27,857 to £30,570 a year Per Annum Including HCAS
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