An exciting opportunity as arisen to join the Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) Laboratory Medicine Service which includes Point of Care Testing (POCT), as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist. The Laboratory Service is spread across the four main hospital sites within SBUHB and operates a hub and spoke network, with the hub laboratory based in Morriston Hospital and spoke laboratories at Singleton Hospital (7 miles from Morriston) and Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend (25 miles from Morriston). The Point of Care Testing Service also currently covers the areas and populations served by the four hospital sites i.e. Morriston Hospital, Singleton Hospital, Neath Port Talbot Hospital and the Princess of Wales Hospital. Service provision for the latter is subject to current discussions relating to a Health Board boundary change.

The Laboratory Medicine Service is progressive and extremely well equipped with Roche, Sysmex and Ortho analysers, and has full accreditation with UKAS, MHRA and IBMS training status. The POCT Service supported by Laboratory Medicine is firmly embedded within SBUHB and includes testing to monitor: blood gas, glucose, ketones, D-Dimer, INR, pregnancy testing, urinalysis, Hb, FBC, A1c. The next steps for the POCT service would be to move towards attaining accreditation of the POCT service to ISO 15189:2022 and this role would be an integral part of this process.

Main duties of the job

Your initial placement will be within the POCT service while still supporting the Laboratory Medicine Service and rotating as required.

The role within the Laboratory involves providing a comprehensive Laboratory Medicine service as an aid to effective diagnosis and treatment ensuring diagnostically abnormal results are acted upon urgently. You will also deputise for senior staff and assist in the training and supervision of junior members of the team.

The role within POCT involves support for all Health Board staff and areas that undertake point of care testing. This support involves training users, monitoring performance of external quality assurance and internal quality control and troubleshooting device and user problems.

The Laboratory Medicine Service is a 24/7/365 operation and a flexible approach to working hours is required. Once competency has been achieved you will be expected to participate in the full shift rota and expected to work at any of the networked laboratory sites as required to maintain quality, training and service requirements.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

The Swansea Bay Laboratory Medicine team is keen to modernise the service through embracing new ways of working and are committed to developing our knowledge and skills and actively seek to develop others into a professional multidisciplinary team. Staff will be trained to work in all sections of the Laboratory Medicine (Blood Sciences) laboratory with a unique opportunity to rotate into Routine Haematology, Coagulation, Blood Transfusion, General Biochemistry and Point of Care Testing. We welcome applications from candidates with existing skills in a single discipline such as haematology & transfusion, biochemistry or point of care testing with a willingness to cross-train.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• IBMS Specialist Diploma in Laboratory Medicine or Equivalent Experience
• HCPC Registration

Desirable

• Master's Degree
• BBTS specialist Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience
• Knowledge and experience of working in Laboratory Medicine including POCT
• Experience of working unsocial hours and night shifts
• Loan working experience
• IT skills , including good working knowledge of MS office programmes and virtual platforms including POCT IT
• Experience of Laboratory information systems

Desirable

• Multidisciplinary Experience including POCT
• Understanding of more complex laboratory techniques
• Understanding of other Pathology disciplines including POCT
• Background knowledge of hospital specialties

Employer details

Employer name

Swansea Bay University Health Board

Address

Neath Port Talbot Hospital (but will involve working on all SBU sites)

Swansea / Bridgend

SA12 7BX

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130-HS057-0924