# Associate Practitioner - Point of Care

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** Warrington Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17T00:01:20.086Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Warrington/Mersey_West_Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Pathology/Pathology-v8099834
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8099834?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sthk.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Applications are invited for a Point of care Associate Practitioner working across the Mersey and West Lancashire Network. The post will initially be based at the Warrington and Halton sites.

As the Pathology Departments across Warrington and Halton and Mersey and West Lancashire have created the Eastern Hub of the Cheshire and Merseyside Pathology Network cross site working across all hospitals may be required in the future.

Point of care manages a number of different devices across the Trust all of which have full connectivity via Siemens POCelerator middleware. Devices include Siemens Rapidlab blood gas analysers, Siemens Atellica DCA , Pro 100 Urilysers, Siemens EPOC, Abbott freestyle precision pro glucose and ketone meters.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

### Main duties of the job

As a member of the point of care team you will be responsible for supporting users and the devices across the Trust this includes delivering training, completing maintenance and troubleshooting issues along with completing tasks required as part of the quality management system.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- To provide training and troubleshooting support for users of point of care devices.
- To distribute and undertake testing of External quality assurance (EQA) samples.
- To submit EQA results to the schemes via the IT systems provided
- To monitor product usage across the devices
- Manage and distribute stock across the Trust
- Liaise with manufacturers in the event of device issues

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Willing to be flexible in service delivery

### Skills

**Essential**

- Able to follow written instructions (SOP’s)
- Problem Solving skills
- Ability to organise/prioritise workload
- IT Skills
- Highly developed physical skills where accuracy
- Frequent requirement for concentration where the work pattern is unpredictable
- Able to handle and work with biological materials

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Laboratory experience at Medical Laboratory Assistant level

### Our Values

**Essential**

- We are Kind
- We are Open
- We are Inclusive

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- NVQ level 3 in Lab skills and/or recorded achievement of departmental competencies

## Documents

- [hwwb risk id (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10404416)
- [staff benefits at mwl (pdf, 5.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2916)
- [mwl recruitment journey (pdf, 884.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2902)
- [associate practitioner point of care (pdf, 488.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10395291)
- [important information for candidates (pdf, 128.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=663)
- [helpful tips to complete your application form (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2901)
- [personal specification associate practitioner point of care (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10395292)

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