The position requires collaboration with various team members, including coordinators, trainers, and clinical leads, to maintain a patient-centered and resilient PoCT service. Additional responsibilities include supervising and training staff, as well as stepping in for the Advanced Biomedical Scientist when necessary. This role is essential in upholding the department's high standards, as evidenced by its ISO15189:2022 accreditation, and ensuring that all service users receive a professional and efficient service.
SWLP plays a pivotal role in delivering innovative and patient-centered POCT and rapid diagnostic solutions, both in the primary and secondary care settings. The Point of Care Testing (PoCT) department is accredited to the ISO15189:2022 standard and the PoCT team manages a wide range of PoCT analysers and devices, connected to POCT middleware systems, across five acute hospitals and in the community. The team manages the governance and quality assurance, the technical support and maintenance, and training and competency assessment of all POCT analysers.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced individual to the role of Specialist Biomedical Scientist in POCT based at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder will work relatively independently, supported by the SWLP POCT manager, POCT coordinator, Associate practitioners, POCT trainers, the clinical lead for POCT and the Principal Clinical Biochemist on each site to deliver a safe, quality-assured and resilient 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.
Find out more about South West London Pathology on our website
Aim of Role:
To be an efficient and flexible member of the SWL Pathology team providing a consistently high quality and professional service to all POCT users of the service.
Key Result Areas:
- To support the POCT Co-ordinator in the day-to-day provision of the POCT services within SWLP sites.
- Contributes to providing a professional POCT service, working effectively as a team member as part of the overall department.
- Able to perform all core scientific and interpretive work, which corresponds to the training and qualifications of a Registered Biomedical Scientist.
- To work unsupervised across the sites, ensuring that all POCT devices are operational and maintained and that all operator training requirements are met.
- To assist in training and supervising staff and deputising for the Advanced Biomedical Scientist when necessary.
About us
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role
Please wait...this will take a moment...
Stand by, we'll show you...