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Associate Practitioner - Chertsey, United Kingdom - Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Permanent

Description

Job summary

Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services, BSPS, provides 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 Ashford/Woking/Walton/St Peters area of the BSPS network POCT services. The ability to travel using own car from site to site is desirable, the main base will be at St Peters Hospital. Full training will be provided.

Main duties of the job

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 or in the community

To order agreed consumables from manufacturers to agreed financial values

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

To maintain good communication with the clinical staff using the Point of Care service in order to maximise the efficiency of delivery to the patient and ensure compliance with the BSPS POCT Policy

To support clinical staff where problems occur with the provision of service

In liaison with other senior staff to ensure the department's quality standards are maintained and to troubleshoot any areas failing to meet these standards

To participate in the provision of External Quality Assessment services both in house and to external customers

To work with other members of the POCT Team to achieve and maintain accreditation against relevant ISO standards and comply with national POCT guidelines

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Quality Service Delivery 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 or in the community

To order agreed consumables from manufacturers to agreed financial values

To directly liaise with the manufacturers of equipment where problems occur that require manufacturers 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 maintain good communication with the clinical staff using the Point of Care service in order to maximise the efficiency of delivery to the patient and ensure compliance with the BSPS POCT Policy

To support clinical staff where problems occur with the provision of service

In liaison with other senior staff to ensure the departments quality standards are maintained and to troubleshoot any areas failing to meet these standards

To participate in the audit of quality control measures within Point of Care. To include departmental and ward audits as necessary

To participate in the provision of External Quality Assessment services both in house and to external customers

To evaluate and implement new technologies to enable an improved and more efficient service

To work with other members of the POCT Team to achieve and maintain accreditation against relevant ISO standards and comply with national POCT guidelines

To acquire and maintain sufficient knowledge in order to be able to first line troubleshoot all key point of care equipment.

Personnel

To train users of Point of Care equipment

To use agreed processes and competency measures when assessing staff in training

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

To contribute to the continued review of training processes and training material

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 ensure all training sessions are carried out in an effective and professional manner

Health and Safety/Risk Management

To keep an organised and tidy working area to ensure a safe working environment for self and others and to comply with Health and Safety requirements

To comply with the Trust and SPS Safety, Security and Risk Management policies and to ensure the standards are maintained in Point of Care areas

To comply with local POCT SOP directives regarding personal protective equipment and environmental cleaning to ensure safe working conditions for all and mitigate and contamination issues.

The Trusts recognise and accept their responsibility to provide a safe and healthy working environment for anyone on their premises

As an employee you also have a duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and you are required to follow all relevant health and safety Policies and Procedures

General

To participate in all aspects of the service including both the core and non-core hours as required

To perform such other reasonable duties as may be required by senior staff. This may include upskilling in general POCT blood testing analysers out of hours.

Equal Opportunities

To comply with and maintain awareness of the Trusts Policies relating to Equal Opportunities

Freedom of Information Act 2000 and GDPR

To maintain awareness and comply with the Trusts Policies and procedures relating to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data Protection Regulations

Working Environment

This job will involve frequent exposure to the laboratory environment as well as wards, clinics, accident and emergency areas in Ashford and St Peters, Frimley Park, Wexham Park, Heatherwood and Royal Surrey County and Royal Berkshire hospitals, Aldershot Centre for Healthand other sites served by BSPS.

This job will require travel between trust sites both inside and outside of core working hours. Ability to drive and have own car essential.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Good communication & evidence of multi tasking skills.

Experience of working in a relevant healthcare environment (or other relevant vocational experience).

Ability to work autonomously and organise own work.

Desirable

NHS experience in the past

Previous POCT experience

Skills

Essential

Willing and able to take personal responsibility

Aware of scope of practice when to act when to refer to managers

Desirable

Basic Leadership skills

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ level 3 qualification or equivalent.

Desirable

BTEC Higher level or relevant vocational qualification (equivalent to level 3)

Other requirments

Essential

Travel between network sites independently