Band 6 Specialist Biomedical Scientist in Point of Care

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a centre of Pathology excellence at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), one of the largest teaching hospitals in England. We have state of the art facilities across 4 sites (Queen Elizabeth, Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals).

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Specialist Biomedical Scientist with experience in all aspects of POCT, who must be HCPC registered, have completed a specialist portfolio. We will also consider candidates as learning contract who have commenced specialist portfolio training. This vacancy is to work 37.5 hrs/week across all sites at UHB.

POCT is part of the Clinical Laboratory Services providing a patient focused quality service. The POCT department provides a dynamic service that actively promotes innovation and service development.

You will be part of a busy POCT, made up of a specialist and experienced team, all working towards a common goal. Our POCT department has a wide range of equipment spread across multiple sites including blood gas analysers, Glucose/Ketone meters, Urine pregnancy and Urinalysis readers, INR, D- Dimer, HbA1c, Hb, TEG, ROTEM, COVID/ Flu testing.

The successful candidate will be expected to work autonomously to deliver high quality of service; communicate with clinical, managerial staff within the Trust and across external organisations and suppliers.

Main duties of the job

The candidate will be expected to have an excellent understanding of all areas within POCT, experience in using different POCT instruments with the evidence of maintaining skills and competency. We are looking for people who work well in a team and are excellent communicators.

We are committed to personal and professional development, and this will be encouraged and supported. There will also be opportunities to be involved in the teaching programmes of the department along with various projects.

POCT department delivers a dynamic service that actively promotes innovation and development, working towards UKAS accreditation.

The post holder will be responsible for performing tasks to meet the needs of the POCT service in different clinical area. This could include a range of technical, scientific, professional, and clinical duties to achieve the objectives of efficient and effective patient care, ensuring that the needs of the department are met to deliver a quality clinical service including but not limited to:

*Undertake maintenance on a wide range of POCT instruments.

*Train all grades of staff within POCT and Clinical area.

*Maintain compliance with good laboratory practice, quality assurance procedures in

accordance with UKAS ISO 15189 standards.

*Technically validate, interpret, and report results within the agreed turnaround times.

*Help with out of hours service on rotational basis including weekends, bank holidays.

*Participate in breath test clinics.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.