Biomedical IT Support Specialist

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our friendly, dedicated, and expanding team of professionals as a Band 6 Biomedical IT Support Specialist in Laboratory Medicine at UHBW.

You will be a proactive member of the Pathology IT Team. Excellent communication skills are essential as is the ability to work within a team, autonomously and support implementation projects across both the Weston and Bristol Lab Med Sites. You should have great multi-tasking ability, have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail and be able to appropriately prioritise.

(Cont'd under detailed job description and main responsibilities)

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of a team providing Pathology IT support to the UHBW Pathology service. The post holder will be undertaking a key role in key IT projects supporting the Weston of England Pathology network objectives. These aim to improve patient safety and laboratory efficiency in order to maintain the highest standards of patient care.  The role will be to support the Path IT team in their duties with various IT systems and hardware.

To assist in the roll out of through barcoding with Primary care and to support the use of labgnostic to interface requests and results with other laboratories.

This role will be supporting both sites at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General Hospital, so flexibility of location is required. Base location to be determined.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.