Band 4 Eqa Associate Practitioner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 4 EQA Associate Practitioner to work within a friendly, professional and busy team dedicated to providing External Quality Assessment (EQA) programmes to Hospital Laboratories.

Birmingham Quality (UK NEQAS) provides External Quality Assessment (EQA) Services for Clinical Chemistry laboratories within the UK and worldwide. Clinical Chemistry specimens are prepared in-house at Birmingham Quality and then dispatched to hospital laboratories.

Birmingham Quality is based offsite, at Birmingham Research Park which is close to both the old and new Queen Elizabeth Hospitals and is adjacent to the National Blood Service on Vincent Drive.

The hours are full time, notionally between 08:30 and 17:00, and the position is permanent.

If this post interests you then you are welcome to come and visit Birmingham Quality, see the variety of work performed and meet other team members.

Please contact Holly Tuite, Operations Manager on

Birmingham Quality is proud to be part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Main duties, tasks & skills required:

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patient care by providing services designed to guarantee the quality of patient test results.

The job is varied and includes, but not limited to:

Planning own day-to-day work and that of other support staff.
Supervises and trains less experienced staff working on tasks in the laboratory and post room.
Receiving, checking and processing biological materials
Manufacture of EQA specimens
Receiving, checking and processing biological materials
Undertakes specialist and nonroutine work related to the operation of EQA
Specialist administration and quality management systems
Working as part of a busy team

Full details are given in the job description and person specification.

About you:
Are you an enthusiastic, well-motivated individual with basic laboratory experience and excellent attention to detail?

Would you like to work in a laboratory environment where you would be handling biological materials?

Are you able to communicate effectively with a range of different people including EQA programme participants (hospital laboratory staff) and other members of your team?

If you can answer 'yes' to these questions, then this may be the opportunity for you.

About us:

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.

This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.

This is more than words. We are taking action.

Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.

We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description:

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to patient care by providing services designed to guarantee the quality of patient test results.

The job is varied and includes, but not limited to:

Planning own day-to-day work and that of other support staff.
Supervises and trains less experienced staff working on tasks in the laboratory and post room.
Receiving, checking and processing biological materials
Manufacture of EQA specimens
Receiving, checking and processing biological materials
Undertakes specialist and nonroutine work related to the operation of EQA
Specialist administration and quality management systems
Working as part of a busy team