Point of Care Testing Coordinator

NHS; Camberley; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking a Point of Care Testing Coordinator to ensure efficient operation of POCT services. This fixed-term role until May 2027 offers the chance to contribute to quality healthcare in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have experience in POCT and relevant qualifications.

Qualifications

• Two years post registration experience in a relevant setting.
• Direct POCT experience required.
• Experience with POCT device roll-outs.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth operation of point-of-care testing services.
• Perform comprehensive method evaluations for analytical performance.
• Deliver training and ensure staff competency.

Skills

Leadership skills

Understanding of POCT workflows

Understanding of pathology networks

Education

HCPC Registration as a Biomedical Scientist

BSc Biomedical Sciences

MSc (or equivalent) in relevant subject/FIBMS

Tools

POCcelerator

WinPath

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, highly organised and detail-orientated Point of Care Testing Coordinator to join our team. This position is essential for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of point-of-care testing (POCT) services, whilst large, network-wide projects are progressed.

This is a fixed-term role until May 2027, and the position will provide an opportunity to contribute to the delivery of quality healthcare services in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Experience within POCT is essential. If you are passionate about healthcare, laboratory testing, and ensuring high standards of patient care, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The Point of Care Testing (POCT) department within Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) provides and supports and governs near-patient pathology diagnostic testing conducted outside of the traditional central laboratory.

The BSPS POCT network includes Frimley Health (Frimley Park Hospital, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals), The Royal Surrey County Hospital (Guildford), Ashford and St Peter's Hospital (Chertsey), The Royal Berkshire Hospital (Reading), East Surrey Hospital (Redhill) along with multiple and expanding projects within the community.

Our BSPS team have extensive experience of supporting a wide repertoire of tests and offer expertise to:

• Advise on potential solutions tailored to the clinical requirement.
• Assess the suitability of proposed testing environments.
• Perform comprehensive method evaluations to ensure acceptable analytical performance.
• Deliver initial training and re-certification, ensuring sufficient staff competency to ultimately benefit patient safety.
• Minimise service down-time, by performing maintenance procedures, providing technical support and troubleshooting.
• Provide formal documentation and perform audits.
• Ensure calibration, internal quality control and external quality control performance is maintained.

Our department strives to provide the highest standard of service in line with relevant quality standards to deliver a package designed to bring service users peace of mind and enabling them to produce results they can trust.

About us

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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Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Registration as a Biomedical Scientist
• BSc Biomedical Sciences
• MSc (or equivalent) in relevant subject/FIBMS

Experience

• Two years post registration experience in a relevent setting
• Direct POCT experience
• Experience with POCT device roll-outs
• Direct POCT experience at the Senior BMS level
• Experience with POCcelerator
• Experience with WinPath

Special Role Requirements

• Able to travel independently between BSPS sites at short notice
• Evidence of leadership skills
• Understanding of POCT workflows
• Understanding of pathology networks

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearpa inc. Fringe HCAS