The Point of Care Testing (POCT) team are looking to recruit two motivated, proactive and hardworking individuals to Associate Practitioner roles within their small and friendly department. There is an opportunity for one full time position (37.5 hours per week) and one part time position (15 hours per week). Please can applicants highlight their preference for either the full time or part time role within their application

This role will give the post holder the opportunity to work in an exciting and emerging area of Pathology, which has improving patient care at its core. Over the last year the team have been responsible for upgrading and replacing the acute glucose/ketone meters within the Trust. Whilst there are also many exciting upcoming projects, such as replacing the urinalysis meters, expanding IT connectivity across the POCT device portfolio and supporting POCT device deployment within the Virtual Ward.

POCT, as the title suggests, is patient testing at or near the patient bedside. Meaning a faster turnaround time to results to allow for quicker diagnosis and treatment. Although POCT sits within Pathology, many of POCT operators are clinical staff. Therefore, the role of the POCT team is to ensure laboratory standards are met for all operators, devices and results across multiple areas and sites.

This role is highly mobile and involves frequent visits to wards and departments both at the main hospital site and at off-site locations., As a POCT Associate Practitioner your role will to complete the day-to-day POCT tasks to ensure a smooth running of the service across all Trust sites. Your duties will include:

- Troubleshooting devices, in addition to performing routine maintenance and decontamination procedures.

- Distributing and processing internal quality controls (IQCs) and external quality assessment (EQA) samples for POCT devices.

- Training POCT device users.

- Assisting with device verification and reagent batch validation.

Have experience within the NHS or within a laboratory environment.

- Have good IT skills.

- Be able to work both in a team and as an individual.

- Be able to prioritise workload.

- Be flexible and able to respond to the needs of the service.

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