Associate Practitioner Poct- Community Support - Camberley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Camberley, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services, BSPS, provide a comprehensive laboratory service to Frimley Health, the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Ashford and St Peters and Surrey and Sussex hospitals.

The Point of Care Team sits within the Pathology remit and co-ordinates the appraisal, introduction, and use of analytical devices in wards, clinics and departments within the hospital trusts and in the community, allowing quality pathology results to be produced nearer to the patient.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident individual to work as part of the Point of Care Testing Team, providing a comprehensive supporting role to all our Community users of Point of Care equipment.

This will include blood gas analysis and major POCT devices already established within the hospital environment.

The advert is for 1 post, one to cover the Reading/Newbury/Slough area of the BSPS network for Community POCT services.

The ability to travel using own car from site to site is essential, main base will be at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berk.

Full training will be provided.

Work autonomously; to participate in the maintenance, evaluation, and documentation of all point of care testing equipment under the guidance of an HCPC registered BMS.

Ensure that equipment is maintained and controlled to be available in order to provide a rapid and timely turnaround time for patient care.

Make decisions as to the viability of equipment to be fit for purpose based upon procedures and personal findings.

Participate in the provision of the of all External Quality Assurance schemes including Qpoint.

Upkeep databased information such as training registers, standard operating procedures, analyser maintenance programmes.

Provide clinical user training for all remote locations, arranging training with the stakeholders and ensuring all training documents are in date and valid

Please refer to attached Job Description

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

To train users of Point of Care equipment using agreed processes and competency measures when assessing staff in training.

To maintain up to date records of training and standard operating procedures (SOP)

To highlight to senior staff where training issues occur

To ensure own competencies prior to training others in a piece of equipment which may include attending off site training sessions offered by manufacturers of point of care testing equipment.

To maintain Point of Care equipment as directed ensuring all protocols and quality standards are met.

Following protocols and based upon personal investigation to remove from use any equipment / analyte not deemed to meet the required quality standards

To ensure good stock control of consumables both within the department and at each Point of Care site on any Trust site particularly in the community.

To directly liaise with the manufacturers of equipment where problems occur that require manufacturer's intervention.

To maintain good communication within the Point of Care team in order to maximise efficiency through agreed priorities and to achieve the aims of Point of Care analysis on a daily basis.

To work with the clinical end users to resolve errors and result discrepancies, and to provide feedback both to the POC team and Trust Managers.

This may include community hospitals and remote sites.