Specimen Reception Lead | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,279 - £33,116 Per Annum Including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC1V 2PD |
| Company: | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6218978/273-DC-8978 |
Summary
This a one year fixed term contract to cover our Specimen Reception Lead post.
This post covers a technical and administrative role within the pathology service, supporting all facets of diagnostic and research testing across the Trust, including phlebotomy.
Supervision and motivation of the pathology services and phlebotomy staff.
Working with the POCT coordinator.
Being the day to day lead and point of contact for the services.
Undertaking duties relevant to pathology services, including receipt, booking in, despatch and incident reporting relating to pathology specimens.
Receiving pathology results and uploading them to relevant systems to ensure they are received by the relevant clinician(s).
Undertake phlebotomy as training and experience allows.
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
• Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
• Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
• Free 24/7 independent counselling service
• Learning and development opportunities
• Easy and quick transport links
• A range of attractive benefits and discounts
• Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
• Free Pilates classes
• Full support and training to develop your skills
• Flexible working friendly organisation
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
To lead on the day to day running of the pathology services department, compiling rotas and ensuring service cover.
To escalate issues and problems to senior staff for mitigation and support.
To liaise with and deputise for the POCT Coordinator to ensure service provision and support.
To escalate absence and annual leave to senior staff for recording, approval and further action.
To be the point of contact for day-to-day queries and issues within the department.
To provide input for operational changes as envisaged by senior staff, and to provide reasonable challenge as required.
Reception:
To safely collect, log and send samples to the relevant pathology assessment service in accordance with the Pathology standard operating procedures (SOPs) and national guidelines for the for the dispatching of pathology samples.
To receive samples from network sites and clinics, to prepare, log and send them on to the relevant pathology provider, returning the containers and labelled Bio-Bottles as required.
To carefully check the request form and patient samples in accordance with the Request Form and specimen Labelling Policy.
To collate and ensure delivery of consumables to wards, clinics and network sites to enable continuing pathology testing.
To prioritise the workload so that urgent samples are dealt with in a timely manner and to record all urgent requests as required, to follow these up and promptly give results to the requesting clinician.
Administrative:
To carefully check subject details so that the requests out and results back to the Trust’s information system are suitable for clinicians to access.
To use and update Open Eyes and PAS to ensure Data Quality, where necessary.
To be aware of handling all complex and sensitive information appropriately in accordance with the pathology SOP and to ensure all abnormal blood results are sent to the appropriate recipients, including the GP if necessary.
To deal with queries, either physically, via email or over the telephone in a courteous manner and use own initiative to deal with enquiries, taking messages to pass on and escalate as needed.
To receive patient reports from external laboratories, log them on the pathology database, Open Eyes and to send these to the requesting clinicians, as appropriate.
To comply with the Pathology SOPs including for safe secure confidential processing, storage and disposal of patient and other laboratory information in accordance with good work practices as required by the standards of UKAS against ISO15189:2022.
To monitor and maintain stock above a minimum acceptable level, using the Trusts’ ordering system to replenish stock and consumables as required.
To liaise and engage with TDL as the main pathology provider over consumables sent/received as part of existing standing orders.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024