# Associate Practitioner - Point of Care Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-practitioner-point-of-care-team/c4550041-44e5-4bb4-b606-52dd5c9c46bb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-practitioner-point-of-care-team/c4550041-44e5-4bb4-b606-52dd5c9c46bb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Addenbrooke's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Laboratory associate practitioner - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 p.a. pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Shift working (Day, Late and Night shifts) required) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-08T15:01:10.492Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridge_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Point_Care_Testing/Point_Care_Testing-v8278913 - **Employer website:** https://www.cuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Practitioner to join our friendly, multi-disciplinary, multi-site Point of Care Testing Team, supporting the Biomedical Scientists in the team. If you want to expand your knowledge and understand how the Point of Care Team work outside the laboratory environment, helping the staff working closer to patients- this could be the job for you. We are looking for a keen, dynamic, forward thinking individual prepared to work shifts to help us deliver the services we undertake. Please note - this role does not require professional registration and is not a Biomedical Scientist position. ### Main duties of the job To support the Point of Care Team in maintaining and quality assuring medical devices used to test patient samples at the point of care, according to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). To maintain POCT data bases of staff training, test and quality data to enable production of reports for distribution. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment All roles in the Trust include a mandatory 12-week training period. Therefore successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver. This vacancy will close at midnight on 14th September 2026 Interviews are due to be held on 2nd October 2026 Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Effective verbal and written communication - Able to work both in a team and as an individual - Ability to work in an organised manner and to high standards - Show attention to detail - Ability to prioritise workload **Desirable** - Phlebotomy skills - Ability to cope under pressure - Ability to deliver training ### Knowledge **Essential** - Computer literate - Use of Basic Microsoft Office programmes **Desirable** - Use of the Trust IT system/EPIC - Use of the internet - Intermediate Microsoft excel ### Experience **Essential** - Basic keyboard skills - Experience within the NHS or within a laboratory environment **Desirable** - Experience of using data bases - Experience of using Medical devices or laboratory equipment. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Education to Foundation Degree or equivalent preferably in a science subject(s) **Desirable** - Knowledge of physiology, human biology or Biomedical Sciences to Foundation Degree level or equivalent. ### Additional Requirements **Essential** - The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent. - Ability to drive to remote sites ## Documents - [applicant information pack (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595216) - [completing your application (pdf, 117.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595215) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.