Point of Care Testing Coordinator - #142801

Job Overview

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.

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.

Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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

Experience

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

• Direct POCT experience at the Senior BMS level
• Experience with POCcelerator
• Experience with WinPath
  
  

Special Role Requirements

Essential criteria

• Able to travel independently between BSPS sites at short notice
• Evidence of leadership skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of POCT workflows
• Understanding of pathology networks
  
  

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.

Apply online now