Specialist Biomedical Scientist - POCT

Job overview

The post holder will act as an experienced state registered Biomedical Scientist to provide a comprehensive POCT service. They will perform routine and specialist procedures and investigations as an aid to the effective diagnosis and management of patients.

The work consists of: analysis of biological specimens using scientific methods utilizing various manual and automated techniques and equipment; reporting of results and treatment based on own and others analysis; certification of analytical processes and technical validity of investigations; liaison with medical, scientific, nursing, medical staff and other NHS Trusts and outside agencies.

The successful applicant will be expected to have excellent communication skills and time management skills. You will be required to communicate with variety of people such as doctors, nurses, biomedical scientists, clinical scientists and engineers. You will also be critical in ensuring that the servicers provided are compliant with governance in place you will also be helping to support the department in its work towards obtaining UKAS accreditation.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that critical devices are maintained such as the blood gas analysers. You will be expected to maintain devices, carry out both simple and advanced trouble shooting on devices; you will be responsible for contacting and following the instruction of the manufactories when unable to fix malfunctioning devices. You will also be responsible for organising and working with manufacturer engineers to ensure that devices are fixed in a timely fashion and that services only have minimal downtime.

The post holder will participate in developing a comprehensive POCT training programme ensuring healthcare workers are trained and competency assessed to the UKAS standards. The successful applicant will be expected to work with clinical areas to implement new services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide timely and accurate test results using appropriate equipment both automated and manual.

Routine and specialist blood sciences analyses, validation, interpretation and reporting of results.

Maintain complex analytical equipment.

Involved in the supervision, teaching, advising and informing of all grades of staff

Use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, authorise test results integrating and initiating further tests as appropriate.

Validates results according to POCT Standard Operating Procedures.

Check validity and reliability of analytical processes, maintaining and monitoring satisfactory performance by internal quality control and external quality assessment to ensure accuracy and precision of POCT equipment.

Assists with monitoring and managing POCT Data Management Systems

Check and monitor POCT consumables and storage facilities i.e. on ward/departmental area and laboratory areas.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.