Associate Practitioner inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED
FRI 24 JAN 2025
As an Associate Practitioner, responsibilities include conducting routine and non-routine tests under standard operating procedures, maintaining laboratory equipment, ensuring stock control of reagents and supplies, and utilizing IT systems for documentation. Additionally, the role includes planning and organizing workload, supervising Medical Laboratory Assistants, participating in training, and conducting audits to maintain quality standards. The position requires commitment to shifts that include early mornings, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays, and it emphasises delivering a patient-focused, cost-effective service aligned with the Trust's objectives.
The Clinical ChemistryLaboratories at Nottingham University Hospitals are looking for enthusiastic candidates to join the team in the role of associate practitioners.
Associate practitioners are high level support staff who work with biomedical scientists to ensure effective service delivery on a rotational basis, duties include data entry, equipment maintenance and processing of blood samples.
Previous laboratory experience would be an advantage however full training will be given.
The role is trustwide, working on both the Nottingham City Hospital Campus and The Queens Medical Centre Campus with a shift roster including early morning, evening and weekend/bank holiday commitment.
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
As an Associate Practitioner, the post holder will be a member of the departmental team and assist inthe delivery of a quality driven, cost effective, patient focused service consistent with the NottinghamUniversity Hospitals Trust's objectives.The post holders' main role is to provide technical support to State Registered Biomedical Scientistsin carrying out the analysis of pathological samples using various technologies and to present theresults for validation or authorisation as appropriate.
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The list of duties will include:
Technical/Scientific: undertake routine and non-routine tests or activities as identified by individual laboratories, up to but not including the point of validation, with exception of auto-authorised procedures. Work to standard operating procedures. Use scientific knowledge to recognise incorrect results and take action to correct errors. Be able to perform laboratory tests requiring a high degree of manual dexterity.
Equipment maintenance: Responsible for monitoring and performing daily, weekly and monthly maintenance of centrifuges, automated analysers and other laboratory equipment, ensuring that logs are completed by all staff. Check the safety and functioning of all equipment perform simple troubleshooting and report malfunctions to BMS staff.
Stock Control: Maintain sufficient stocks of reagents, supplies etc. for the day-to-day operation of the laboratory. Maintain stock control records and order more stock where a system has been set up for this. Liaise with Clinical Pathology and Pathology stores staff to ensure deliveries are correct and received on time.
Information and IT: Ensure that the Standard Operating Procedures for own work area are kept up to date and displayed appropriately. Assist in proposing, developing and implementing new procedures. Use word processing and spreadsheet packages to produce draft SOPs, audit reports and laboratory data.
Planning: Plan and organise own workload and may be required to assign work to Medical Laboratory Assistants.
Supervisory: Participate in the training of new Medical Laboratory Assistants and Associate Practitioners. Supervise Medical Laboratory Assistants and less experienced staff, allocating work, training, etc.
Audit: Perform audits as required by Senior BMS staff or the Laboratory Manager.
Quality: Perform quality control as appropriate and report any out of consensus results to BMS staff.
Perform other technical duties as required within post-holders training and competence.
To perform any other duties required by the Laboratory Manager or Head of Department commensurate with grade.
Training relevant to this post, including safety aspects in the handling of biological material, will be given.
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