Biomedical Support Worker - FIT Testing

The Blood Sciences Department at the Countess of Chester have a vacancy for a Biomedical Support worker to support the Symptomatic FIT testing service across Cheshire & Merseyside and implementation of the long-term pathology model. This post will be a 12 month fixed term post.

This service is based at Chester Blood Sciences Laboratory processing samples for Chester and Wirral patients.

Duties will include processing samples, entering results and data, sending kits to patients, tracking patient compliance, dealing with service user enquiries and chasing up missing samples.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.

Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.

Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.