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Advanced Biomedical Scientist - PoCT Co-ordinator
| Posting date: | 08 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 pa pr incl HCAS (inner london) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 March 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6966963/200-STG-713124-6966963-DK |
Summary
A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
At SWLP, the Point of Care Testing (PoCT) department is accredited to ISO 15189:2012 and ISO22870 standards. The PoCT team manages a wide range of PoCT analysers and devices, connected to POCT middleware systems, across five sites and manages maintenance, training, competency, quality assurance and governance of these pieces of equipment.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced individual to the role of PoCT Coordinator for the SWLP network. The post holder will be based at St George's Hospital but will be required to work and coordinate with other SWLP site Leads.
The post-holder will work relatively independently, supported by the SWLP POCT manager, BMS/MLA staff and the Principal Clinical Biochemist on each site to deliver the PoCT service. Given the outward facing nature of this role, the successful individual will need to have good organisational and communication skills and significant experience in PoCT and quality management.
1. To provide and co-ordinate specialist clinical technical services to patients that may include researchand audit samples.
2. Toundertaketheday-to-daymanagementofthePOCTserviceunderthedirectionoftheline
manager.
3. Toestablish and coordinatea sitePOCT Committee and POCT policy and report all relevant
information to the committee with input from all POCT users, Medical, Nursing, Patient and finance.
4. Contributestoprovidingaprofessionalclinicallaboratoryservice,working effectively asa team
member as part of the overall department.
5. To provide the necessary training and supervision to staff within the POCT department
South West London Pathology is an award winning pathology partnership between three leading Hospital Trusts – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS foundation Trust – designed to provide an integrated, high quality pathology service for hospitals and GPs across South West London, by bringing together the best of each Trust’s service and providing them within a single organisation.
***Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role***
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025
At SWLP, the Point of Care Testing (PoCT) department is accredited to ISO 15189:2012 and ISO22870 standards. The PoCT team manages a wide range of PoCT analysers and devices, connected to POCT middleware systems, across five sites and manages maintenance, training, competency, quality assurance and governance of these pieces of equipment.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced individual to the role of PoCT Coordinator for the SWLP network. The post holder will be based at St George's Hospital but will be required to work and coordinate with other SWLP site Leads.
The post-holder will work relatively independently, supported by the SWLP POCT manager, BMS/MLA staff and the Principal Clinical Biochemist on each site to deliver the PoCT service. Given the outward facing nature of this role, the successful individual will need to have good organisational and communication skills and significant experience in PoCT and quality management.
1. To provide and co-ordinate specialist clinical technical services to patients that may include researchand audit samples.
2. Toundertaketheday-to-daymanagementofthePOCTserviceunderthedirectionoftheline
manager.
3. Toestablish and coordinatea sitePOCT Committee and POCT policy and report all relevant
information to the committee with input from all POCT users, Medical, Nursing, Patient and finance.
4. Contributestoprovidingaprofessionalclinicallaboratoryservice,working effectively asa team
member as part of the overall department.
5. To provide the necessary training and supervision to staff within the POCT department
South West London Pathology is an award winning pathology partnership between three leading Hospital Trusts – St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS foundation Trust – designed to provide an integrated, high quality pathology service for hospitals and GPs across South West London, by bringing together the best of each Trust’s service and providing them within a single organisation.
***Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role***
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025
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