Job summary
Fixed term 11 months at 37.5 hours or 12 months at 35 hours p/w
This post is a fixed term (11 or 12 month opportunity) to join an exciting developmental Point of Care Testing project within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust.
The post holder will support the current POCT coordinator in the provision of an effective, high quality service which will enhance clinical governance across the whole Trust site and the Gloucestershire NHS community areas.
To be responsible for supporting and coordinating other staff members involved in POCT.
To ensure that all current and future procurements of POCT equipment is fully evaluated and installed within the required framework that the Trust as laid down within its POCT policy guidelines.
The successful applicant will be HCPC registered with a completed Specialist Portfolio (or equivalent) with substantial years post registration experience and ideally a background or previous experience in POCT.
Main duties of the job
This post is ideal for someone who has relevant experience and is looking to join a friendly and well-motivated team to help deliver technical and clinical excellence within the current POCT service. The role will be for either 11 months @ 37.5 hours per week or 12 months @ 35 hours per week.
You will help develop and coordinate our governance framework for POCT, engage with a variety of healthcare professionals to implement true quality improvement in rapid and accurate diagnostic testing within the near patient testing environment. You will be involved extensively in the support and development of digital connectivity programmes, supporting dialogue and coordination of activities with a variety of IT specialists (including suppliers) in order to achieve time specified delivery targets.
Personal qualities we are looking for include;
An ability to train and develop in order to apply specialist knowledge and experience to working practices.
Excellent communication skills
Organised with attention to detail.
Flexible and able to demonstrate initiative, with problem solving abilities.
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Friendly, enthusiastic team player with good demonstrable interpersonal skills.
Coordinating and delivering training to a variety of healthcare professionals both in the Acute Trust setting and within community/primary care locations.
Previous experience of working in POCT and involvement in preparation of ISO accredited documentation.
About us
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in England, delivering services from two general hospitals.
The Chemical Pathology Department provides a UKAS accredited analytical and clinical interpretive service to support over 600,000 individuals within the health community in Gloucestershire.
We are a hard working team focused on improving patient outcomes and delivering high quality services to support the testing of more than 3/4 million diagnostic tests performed next to the patient bedside.
Benefits include holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus eight general and public holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service
An annual personal development review to support your career aspirations
Occupational health services and support
Automatic membership of the NHS Pension Scheme (unless you choose to opt out). New entrants to the scheme receive employer contributions of 5 - 14.5% dependant on salary.
Study leave for sponsored courses
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work closely with the existing POCT Lead and other coordinators and POCT Clinical Lead and members of the POCT Group (including key personnel in the Integrated Care Board (ICB))
The post holder will also be dealing with a variety of key personnel including clinicians, GPs, nursing staff, other hospital and primary care staff, supplier representatives, and engineers
Undertake projects for POCT as directed by the POCT or Clinical Scientist/ICB leads.
Responsibility for ensuring all tests are performed according to established laboratory standard operating procedures and within agreed turnaround times.
To ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standards.
To be trained and competent in all POCT systems within the POCT network both in the acute hospital sites and community areas.
Responsibility for ensuring the procurement, implementation and safe use of expensive and complex equipment is in line with the clinical governance framework laid down within the POCT policy.
To coordinate relevant staff in initiating any troubleshooting and problem solving tasks in relation to errors with equipment, methodologies and quality control.
To deputise for the POCT coordinator & POCT clinical leads and deputise at meetings in their absence.
To be actively involved in the selection and recruitment of staff.
Ensure good communications in order to create an efficient well motivated group of staff.
To assist with the induction of new staff.
To coordinate other members of staff to provide mentoring for new members of staff, as required
To be involved with the training of Healthcare Science Practitioners, Trainee Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners and Medical Laboratory Assistants. To include the preparation and presentation of tutorials.
To be an active member of Laboratory meetings and a variety of Trust based meetings such as Patient Safety and other ad hoc meetings associated with the setup and governance of POCT.
Attend a multitude of different meetings with both healthcare professionals and commercial companies involved in the delivery of POCT solutions.
To ensure commercially sensitive supplier information is protected in line with service level agreements and the data protection act.
To participate in the budget setting process of the ICS POCT project in order to plan for future service needs and identify current cost pressures
To help to ensure all staff follow appropriate Standard Operating Procedures and comply with Health and Safety requirements and policies
As commensurate with the access level of POCT Coordinator Band 7, perform routine and more specialist/complex tasks on the laboratory computer system.
To be involved in audit and process redesign of the POCT department with other senior members of Pathology to ensure the demands for POCT both in the acute trust areas and the Gloucestershire NHS community areas are met.
To co-ordinate all elements relevant to ISO15189:2022, to support the development of Annual Management Reviews of POC services.
Use Q-Pulse to record any point of care activities and issues such as NCRs, audits and documentation.
Use web and server based management tools such as Gem Web, NovaNet and POCcelerator to monitor diagnostic result data, provide clinical reports on request and monitor performance and governance of connected POCT systems and users. Coordinate both basic and advanced troubleshooting on connected POCT systems and encourage first responders to be able to escalate issues to local IT support and relevant suppliers.Support and deliver on-the-job training and development as directed by the Point of Care Co-ordinator or POCT clinical lead.
To support dialogue and activity around digital connectivity programmes, attend regular meetings with associated healthcare professionals and IT support personal including colleagues within digital integration, infrastructure and project IT management. Ensuring that defined digital projects are progressed in a timely fashion to enable timed target goals to be achieved as required.
To help implement IQC and EQA programmes that have been suitably identified and carry out periodic reviews of result data to ensure performance is appropriate. To highlight any shortcomings or failures within these programmes and ensure root cause and corrective actions are identified in a timely fashion in order to prevent patient treatments from being compromised.
Work with the overall Point of Care Co-ordinator team to ensure there is a training programme with defined competencies for each type of POCT device.
To coordinate and manage relevant staff in maintaining a register of competent staff who are authorised to use each device, and where technically possible limiting access to POCT to trained users by automatic means.
To deliver and support training to a multitude of different healthcare professionals who utilise POCT devices, this includes but is not exclusive to nursing staff, clinicians, HCA's, GP practice staff.
To ensure compliance with Information Governance guidelines in all areas served by the POCT team
To participate in an annual appraisal and development review meeting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work closely with the existing POCT Lead and other coordinators and POCT Clinical Lead and members of the POCT Group (including key personnel in the Integrated Care Board (ICB))
The post holder will also be dealing with a variety of key personnel including clinicians, GPs, nursing staff, other hospital and primary care staff, supplier representatives, and engineers
Undertake projects for POCT as directed by the POCT or Clinical Scientist/ICB leads.
Responsibility for ensuring all tests are performed according to established laboratory standard operating procedures and within agreed turnaround times.
To ensure the quality of the analytical service is maintained to UKAS ISO 15189:2022 standards.
To be trained and competent in all POCT systems within the POCT network both in the acute hospital sites and community areas.
Responsibility for ensuring the procurement, implementation and safe use of expensive and complex equipment is in line with the clinical governance framework laid down within the POCT policy.
To coordinate relevant staff in initiating any troubleshooting and problem solving tasks in relation to errors with equipment, methodologies and quality control.
To deputise for the POCT coordinator & POCT clinical leads and deputise at meetings in their absence.
To be actively involved in the selection and recruitment of staff.
Ensure good communications in order to create an efficient well motivated group of staff.
To assist with the induction of new staff.
To coordinate other members of staff to provide mentoring for new members of staff, as required
To be involved with the training of Healthcare Science Practitioners, Trainee Biomedical Scientists, Associate Practitioners and Medical Laboratory Assistants. To include the preparation and presentation of tutorials.
To be an active member of Laboratory meetings and a variety of Trust based meetings such as Patient Safety and other ad hoc meetings associated with the setup and governance of POCT.
Attend a multitude of different meetings with both healthcare professionals and commercial companies involved in the delivery of POCT solutions.
To ensure commercially sensitive supplier information is protected in line with service level agreements and the data protection act.
To participate in the budget setting process of the ICS POCT project in order to plan for future service needs and identify current cost pressures
To help to ensure all staff follow appropriate Standard Operating Procedures and comply with Health and Safety requirements and policies
As commensurate with the access level of POCT Coordinator Band 7, perform routine and more specialist/complex tasks on the laboratory computer system.
To be involved in audit and process redesign of the POCT department with other senior members of Pathology to ensure the demands for POCT both in the acute trust areas and the Gloucestershire NHS community areas are met.
To co-ordinate all elements relevant to ISO15189:2022, to support the development of Annual Management Reviews of POC services.
Use Q-Pulse to record any point of care activities and issues such as NCRs, audits and documentation.
Use web and server based management tools such as Gem Web, NovaNet and POCcelerator to monitor diagnostic result data, provide clinical reports on request and monitor performance and governance of connected POCT systems and users. Coordinate both basic and advanced troubleshooting on connected POCT systems and encourage first responders to be able to escalate issues to local IT support and relevant suppliers.Support and deliver on-the-job training and development as directed by the Point of Care Co-ordinator or POCT clinical lead.
To support dialogue and activity around digital connectivity programmes, attend regular meetings with associated healthcare professionals and IT support personal including colleagues within digital integration, infrastructure and project IT management. Ensuring that defined digital projects are progressed in a timely fashion to enable timed target goals to be achieved as required.
To help implement IQC and EQA programmes that have been suitably identified and carry out periodic reviews of result data to ensure performance is appropriate. To highlight any shortcomings or failures within these programmes and ensure root cause and corrective actions are identified in a timely fashion in order to prevent patient treatments from being compromised.
Work with the overall Point of Care Co-ordinator team to ensure there is a training programme with defined competencies for each type of POCT device.
To coordinate and manage relevant staff in maintaining a register of competent staff who are authorised to use each device, and where technically possible limiting access to POCT to trained users by automatic means.
To deliver and support training to a multitude of different healthcare professionals who utilise POCT devices, this includes but is not exclusive to nursing staff, clinicians, HCA's, GP practice staff.
To ensure compliance with Information Governance guidelines in all areas served by the POCT team
To participate in an annual appraisal and development review meeting.
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Appropriate BSc Degree in Biomedical Science Appropriate MSc Degree in Biomedical Science or equivalent post registration education programme
- Substantial years post-registration experience as BMS/HCS Practitioner or clinical scientist
- Demonstrate awareness of POCT speciality in Acute Trust setting with emphasis on governance framework
- Demonstrate understanding of current and ongoing developments in POCT as defined at national level.
- Ability of work in a multidisciplinary team. Ability to show initiative and enthusiasm. Demonstrate organisational and time management skills Ability to manage, motivate and delegate work within multi-skilled team
- Demonstrate IT literacy, understanding of digital connectivity systems at pathology level.
Desirable
- Evidence of being involved in coordination or delivery of robust training programmes for healthcare professionals.
- Additional experience / qualification in IT and / or software packages e.g. Microsoft office.
- Experience of working as an independent practitioner
- Experience of working in NHS primary care/community e.g. ICB, community hospitals, GP practices
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Appropriate BSc Degree in Biomedical Science Appropriate MSc Degree in Biomedical Science or equivalent post registration education programme
- Substantial years post-registration experience as BMS/HCS Practitioner or clinical scientist
- Demonstrate awareness of POCT speciality in Acute Trust setting with emphasis on governance framework
- Demonstrate understanding of current and ongoing developments in POCT as defined at national level.
- Ability of work in a multidisciplinary team. Ability to show initiative and enthusiasm. Demonstrate organisational and time management skills Ability to manage, motivate and delegate work within multi-skilled team
- Demonstrate IT literacy, understanding of digital connectivity systems at pathology level.
Desirable
- Evidence of being involved in coordination or delivery of robust training programmes for healthcare professionals.
- Additional experience / qualification in IT and / or software packages e.g. Microsoft office.
- Experience of working as an independent practitioner
- Experience of working in NHS primary care/community e.g. ICB, community hospitals, GP practices
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
