Associate Practitioner

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS health provider in Camberley is seeking a full-time Associate Practitioner. This role involves supporting high-quality technical services in a diagnostic lab, supervising support staff, and ensuring efficient service delivery. Ideal candidates should have a science background, relevant laboratory experience, and good communication skills. Opportunities for training and professional development are provided.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Commitment to work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience as a MLA in a diagnostic laboratory.
• Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures.
• Good multi-tasking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Participate in scientific and diagnostic services.
• Act as supervisor for support grade staff.
• Manage laboratory stock and samples.

Skills

Good scientific background

Laboratory experience

Good communication skills

Leadership skills

Attention to detail

Education

A Levels including science or NVQ 4

IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 2)

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Job Overview

Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services

Are you looking for a full-time Band 4 Associate Practitioner (AP) role with a desire to work as part of the largest NHS led Pathology Services in the UK? We have the opportunity for you.

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and well-motivated individual with good scientific background and laboratory experience to complement our existing AP team.

The post holder will liaise with line manager as part of a team delivering high quality protocol based technical service under the supervision of HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist staff and is required to act as supervisor for support grade staff members as agreed with the laboratory management team, and will be expected to train, support and advise less experienced staff, such as trainees, students and medical laboratory assistants.

Essential qualities expected are efficiency, being well-organised, having good communication and leadership skills and attention to detail. Good keyboard skills are desirable. In addition, you should be a reliable individual who is able to demonstrate good practical skills and work as part of the AP team.

You will be expected to work according to our working time compliant shift system. The successful candidate will be based at Frimley Park Hospital site.

Main duties of the job

• To participate in the provision of a comprehensive range of scientific and diagnostic services for bacteriology. The diagnostic work of the bacteriology department includes the appropriate processing and handling of body fluids and materials including high risk specimens.
• The post holder will liaise with line manager as part of a team delivering high quality protocol based technical service under the supervision of HCPC Registered Biomedical Scientist staff.
• The post holder will be required to communicate with hospital clinicians, general practitioners, other healthcare professionals, patients and their representatives and commercial suppliers.
• The post holder will be required to operate sophisticated, automated laboratory equipment and perform scientific techniques under supervision and to report results in accordance with departmental SOPs and as appropriate to grade.
• The post holder is required to act as supervisor for support grade staff members as agreed with the laboratory management team, and will be expected to train, support and advise less experienced staff, such as trainees, students and MLA’s.
• The post holder will be required to manage laboratory stock within the department and provide details of stock management to the Lead BMS or General Manager as required.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Be able to effectively deal with simple day to day situations and problems, referring to Senior Biomedical Scientist staff when appropriate
• Ensures sample is appropriate type for all tests and assesses samples for urgency, informing Biomedical Scientist staff of such samples
• To be responsible for own work which will include all aspects of the technical work, equipment and quality system
• To monitor and produce reports as required to laboratory manager in relation to workload and staff within section
• Ensures efficient use of resources and is aware of stock levels and rotation, storage conditions, batch numbers and expiry dates, thus ensuring the viability of reagents and/or blood products used
• Communicates effectively with other staff groups both internal and external, including healthcare professionals, transport and courier staff, patients and their representatives and commercial suppliers
• Provides supervision, training support and assistance to newly staff as appropriate (including the demonstration of procedures to less experienced staff)
• Carry out biomedical procedures including maintenance, monitoring of sophisticated equipment and audit in accordance with departmental SOPs
  
  

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good education to A Levels, including science subject or NVQ 4 or IBMS Certificate of Achievement (Part 2) or Foundation degree or demonstrable laboratory knowledge, experience and skills that prerequisite this role.
• Willing to undergo relevant training to ensure sound relevant knowledge
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ECDL
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience as a MLA in a diagnostic laboratory
• Able to perform technically challenging procedures where applicable
• Ability to develop knowledge and understanding of microbiology techniques sufficient to undertake specimen processing and reception
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working as part of a team
• Some experience of diagnostic microbiology
  
  

Skills Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good at multi-tasking
• Good verbal and manual skills
• Ability to work effectively under time and workload pressures
• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Lateral thinking
• Familiar with the use of computers and able to use a keyboard
• Friendly and interactive in working group
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours 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.

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Seniority level

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  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

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Job function

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  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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