Associate Practitioner Blood Sciences
| Posting date: | 30 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Location: | Durham, DH1 5TW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9439-2526-0869 |
Summary
This Associate Practitioner role involves working closely alongside Biomedical Scientists and also the Pathology reception Team Leader and reception team. They follow the laboratory Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and complete the relevant quality documentation as required. Samples are received into Pathology reception from wards and clinics within the hospital and from community hospitals and GP surgeries. They are registered in Pathology Reception and placed on analysers in the laboratories. The AP will monitor the analysers in the department, dealing with errors on samples, maintainance on the analysers, replenishing reagents and consumables and basic troubleshooting/fault finding. The AP will complete all the required documentation for the maintenance and error logging. Stock is managed by the AP and BMS staff, stock takes are performed, ordering of reagents and consumables via the Cardea ordering system, signing for deliveries, receipting goods delivered, unpacking, verifying if appropriate and ensuring paperwork is complete before placing in appropriate storage area in an orderly organised manner. Temperature monitoring is a daily task, all grades Band3 upwards may be involved and the AP may be required to assist, trroubleshoot and train other staff in the process. The AP will deal with reports from referral laboratories, entering results to the lab computer system, identified overdue reports and chasing up with other labs. Generally the AP staff assist the Biomedical Scientists with tasks in the laboratory in which they have been trained and are within their scope of practice. They will also be required to assist in clerical tasks in specimen reception. This role requires someone who is conscientious, can work independently within their scope of practice, is an excellent confident communicator to liase with staff from many wards, departments and other laboratories as well as Trust drivers, porters, Blood Bikers as well as their own Blood Sciences Team. Attention to detail is a key skill required so that errors can be picked up and appropriately recorded and so that patient samples can be accurately identified and tested and results recorded or transcribed. The AP may need to focus for long periods and also be flexible to organise tasks in priority order. Please note that this is a temporary role, and IBMS certificate of competence training cannot be offered to the succesful candidate. You will be required to travel to other hospital sites for weekly clinics and maintain, QC and run analysers on remote sites and monitor Blood Banks on remote sites..