Point of Care Testing Coordinator

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, highly organised and detail-orientated Point of Care Testing Coordinator to join our team. This position is essential for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of point-of-care testing (POCT) services, whilst large, network-wide projects are progressed.

This is a fixed-term role until May 2027, and the position will provide an opportunity to contribute to the delivery of quality healthcare services in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Experience within POCT is essential.  If you are passionate about healthcare, laboratory testing, and ensuring high standards of patient care, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The Point of Care Testing (POCT) department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) provides and supports and governs near-patient pathology diagnostic testing conducted outside of the traditional central laboratory.

The BSPS POCT network includes Frimley Health (Frimley Park Hospital, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals), The Royal Surrey County Hospital (Guildford), Ashford and St Peter's Hospital (Chertsey), The Royal Berkshire Hospital (Reading), East Surrey Hospital (Redhill) along with multiple and expanding projects within the community.

Our BSPS team have extensive experience of supporting a wide repertoire of tests and offer expertise to:

• Advise on potential solutions tailored to the clinical requirement.
• Assess the suitability of proposed testing environments.
• Perform comprehensive method evaluations to ensure acceptable analytical performance.
• Deliver initial training and re-certification, ensuring sufficient staff competency to ultimately benefit patient safety.
• Minimise service down-time, by performing maintenance procedures, providing technical support and troubleshooting.
• Provide formal documentation and perform audits.
• Ensure calibration, internal quality control and external quality control performance is maintained.

Our department strives to provide the highest standard of service in line with relevant quality standards to deliver a package designed to bring service users peace of mind and enabling them to produce results they can trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role.