Senior Biomedical Scientist Blood Sciences and POCT Lead

at  Spire Healthcare

Senior Biomedical Scientist Blood Sciences & POCT Lead | Band 6/7 equivalent depending on experience | Manchester| Full Time
Spire Manchester is looking for a highly motivated experienced Senior Biomedical Scientist and POCT Lead to join our dynamic team.
Spire Manchester Hospital is a brand new, £65m state-of-the-art healthcare facility offering you the opportunity to work across a wide variety of specialisms. You will be able to develop your clinical skills in a modern and progressive environment. The Manchester team currently consists of over 500 colleagues, and we are rapidly expanding as we increase the scope of services we provide across our experienced and dynamic team.

The purpose of the role will be to assist in the organisation, management and development of services within a specialised area of the pathology service, or across a range of services provided by the laboratory at Hub Hospital and support the provision of pathology services for spoke site Hospitals
To liaise with the Laboratory Consultant and the Pathology Manager, to ensure the provision of the high quality service in an efficient and cost effective manner.

Take a lead role in ensuring the hospital Point of Care Services (POCT) are safe and liaise with the National Pathology Specialist – Point of Care Testing.

• Develop practice including investigation and reporting, within your areas of specialist expertise.
• Analyse, interpret and report information and knowledge related to ideas and concepts.
• Develop and evaluate the movement of laboratory specimens and blood.
• Assist with research and development.
• Develop practice in the application of technology for measuring and monitoring pathology investigations, within your specialist area of expertise..
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others.
• Promotes best practice in health and safety and security.
• Assist in maintaining and developing services.
• Deliver quality improvement with the department senior team.
• Support and enable equality, diversity and rights.
• Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
• Ensure distribution of External Quality Control (EQA) and Internal Quality Control (IQC) for POCT services to the correct departments in all supported hospitals

• Ensure uplift of EQA results for POCT to web portals and report results into the local POCT committee and give assistance to resolve any issuesAttend local POCT committees and contribute to discussions on equipment, maintenance, EQA and IQC