A Full time Band 6 vacancy has arisen in the Point of Care Testing (PoCT) department for a highly motivated individual to join the team, providing high quality PoCT across the acute sites in East Kent (EKHUFT). The Team supports a variety of PoCT equipment and assists with the introduction of new devices, to support new services being introduced in clinical areas.

The post based in Pathology involves spending time on the wards, clinics and out patients supporting the clinical areas in the use of PoCT equipment. The role includes: training, maintenance, trouble shooting and monitoring quality performance of devices and users. The role would suit a BMS with an interest in PoCT.

It's an exciting time to be in PoCT as it's a rapidly expanding field. As a Band 6 PoCT Site Lead at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, this is an amazing opportunity to help provide an outstanding service to our clinical colleagues and patients - transforming the way healthcare is delivered across East Kent.

Main duties of the job

This role is a Site Lead for the PoCT service for our busy WHH site that includes A& E, ITU, Paediatrics, Maternity and an Urgent Treatment Centre. This is an opportunity to extend your experience in Pathology and to interact more closely with the clinical areas. The purpose of the role is to support the PoCT Coordinator in the provision of a proactive, professional PoCT service and quality governance framework to ensure patient safety in respect of PoCT activity. This will include device maintenance and troubleshooting, device evaluations, documentation, performance review of internal and external quality control, administration of external quality assessment programmes, training and audit for PoCT devices and line management for the PoCT Rapid Laboratory based in A& E.

Kent and Medway Pathology Network (KMPN) is a formal partnership of seven sites across three pathology services in four acute Trusts. Our 1000 colleagues provide services across the health and care sector to a population of nearly 2 million.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

KMPN are at an exciting point of our network development with a recommendation to form a joint venture across the four Trusts leading transformation. Our projects including single IT solutions, procurement and digital projects, to ensure our services are able to meet growing demand for our service users, patients and communities.

You will have a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in KMPN. We are developing a network academy, a platform for all network education and training from apprenticeships to advanced clinical and scientific qualifications with a single faculty making best use of our talented educators and trainers. You will not be expected to work at sites outside of EKHUFT. However, there will be opportunities for collaborative working within the network.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in 'supporting documents'.

If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.

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Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

• HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist.
• Biological science degree.

Desirable

• POCT experience.

Personal/professional attributes/Other requirements

Essential

• To be able to work in emotionally challenging areas such as A& E, resuscitation, adult and neonatal ITU.
• Experience of responding to analyser troubleshooting requests.

Governance

Essential

• Experience of working to laboratory ISO 15189 standards.

Desirable

• Previous laboratory experience with analysers and laboratory equipment.
• Awareness of ISO15189:2022 requirements for POCT.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Medical device management or experience of working to laboratory ISO standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to achieve set targets within a specified timeframe.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable

• Previous laboratory experience

Employer details

Employer name

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

William Harvey Hospital

Kennington Road

Ashford

TN24 0LZ

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