Associate Practitioner - Royal Brompton Hospital
Closed for applications on: 4-May-2023 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-May-2023 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £28,837 - £31,539 per annum including inner London HCAS rate
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Biomedical Sciences
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
- The post holder will act as an Associate Practitioner to help the registered BMSs in providing a professional clinical laboratory service as an aid to effective diagnosis and treatment.
- Able to perform routine technical tasks under the supervision of the Registered Biomedical Scientist.
- Develop and improve technical and admin skills.
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- To learn and understand the given tasks in designated areas of diagnostic work and admin work within the department to assist in the provision of a comprehensive and appropriate laboratory service to patients and staff.
- To understand and follow the laboratory standard operational and health and safety policies and procedures and ensure that safe working practices are maintained according to standard operating procedures.
- As and when required, help the office staff with scanning of the request forms and other documents, packaging blocks and slides for sending back to the referring laboratories and all records keeping.
Working for our organisation
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Scientific Duties and Responsibilities:
- To safely handle, use and dispose of patient blood, urine, faeces, other body tissue, and hazardous chemicals.
- To be familiar with the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) requirements for the handling of dangerous pathogens, and to apply this knowledge in order to safely handle these dangerous pathogens in the safety cabinets.
- To learn and understand the given tasks in designated areas of diagnostic work and admin work within the department to assist in the provision of a comprehensive and appropriate laboratory service to patients and staff.
- To understand and follow the laboratory standard operational and health and safety policies and procedures and ensure that safe working practices are maintained according to standard operating procedures.
- To adapt to new methodology or working practices when required, due to changing circumstances.
- To ensure that specimens and request forms are adequately labelled before being accepted into the laboratory and to resolve problems arising from incorrectly or inadequately labelled specimens and requests.
- To maintain patient confidentiality
- To progress to work towards a registration portfolio with HCPC and to maintain a portfolio of relevant competency development for the Institute of Biomedical Scientist as an Associate Practitioner.
- As and when required, help the office staff with
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- scanning of the request forms and other documents.
- packaging blocks and slides for sending back to the referring laboratories.
- records keeping.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- HCPC approved Biomedical Science degree.
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of the medical terminology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the UK Pathology Laboratories and office.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using a laboratory computer system.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good written and oral communication skills.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to provide and receive sensitive information.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pratibha Shah
- Job title
- Histopathology & Mortuary Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 351 88427
- Additional information
Recruitment department via e-mail [email protected]
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