Associate Practitioner | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £28,860 - £31,671 per annum incl HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Cwmni: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7670800/151-SL0504-HL |
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Join Our Forward-Thinking Blood Sciences Team!
We are seeking anenergetic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated individualwith a strong scientific background to join our Haematology and Blood Transfusion departments. This is an excellent opportunity to become a key part of a dynamic laboratory team delivering high-quality services within Blood Sciences.
In this role, you will work closely with your line manager to support and enhance our technical services, ensuring they continue to meet the rigorous standards ofUKAS and ISO 15189:2022. You will also collaborate with colleagues across all grades—both technical and medical—to help maintain an effective, efficient, and forward-looking laboratory service.
What We Offer
• A supportive and inclusive environment where innovation is encouraged and staff are truly valued
• Excellent opportunities forpersonal and professional development
• A modern laboratory committed to the nationalModernising Pathologyagenda
• A collaborative, forward-thinking team dedicated to high-quality patient care
This post is based atWexham Park Hospital, Slough.
• Participate in a range of duties within the Blood Sciences department, under supervision or without supervision following successful competency assessment.
• Analyses potentially infectious samples using sophisticated automated equipment to produce results of a quality consistent with excellent patient care.
• Carry out biomedical procedures including maintenance, monitoring of sophisticated equipment and audit in accordance with departmental SOPs.
• Be able to effectively deal with simple day to day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate.
• Demonstrate a robust knowledge of national and local health and safety standards.
• Effectively contribute to the continual improvement of service and identify risks to Biomedical Scientist staff.
• Effectively maintain stock control, place orders and take appropriate action as required.
• Participate in the review of departmental SOPs.
• Ensure the safe disposal of specimens and waste and to ensure cleaning and maintenance of work areas and equipment is carried out in accordance with SOPs.
• Ensures that samples meet acceptance criteria, dealing with any non-compliance in accordance with departmental protocols.
• Ensures sample is appropriate type for all tests and assesses samples for urgency, informing Biomedical Scientist staff of such samples.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025