• Job Description

  Req#: C9151-25-0644?language=en&page=348&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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.

  About us

  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.

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  Details

  Date posted

  16 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £48,270 to £54,931 a year pa inc. Fringe HCAS

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  24 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  151-SL0464

  Job locations

  Frimley Park Hospital

  Frimley

  Camberley

  GU16 7UJ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

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

  Job description

  Job 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

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

  Experience

  Essential

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

  Desirable

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

  Special Role Requirements

  Essential

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

  Desirable

  • Understanding of POCT workflows
  • Understanding of pathology networks

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

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

  Experience

  Essential

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

  Desirable

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

  Special Role Requirements

  Essential

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

  Desirable

  • Understanding of POCT workflows
  • Understanding of pathology networks

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Frimley Park Hospital

  Frimley

  Camberley

  GU16 7UJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Frimley Park Hospital

  Frimley

  Camberley

  GU16 7UJ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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