POCT Rapid CoVid Testing Support Officer

The POCT team can announce the fantastic opportunity to be part of a new team to manage and direct the Rapid CoVid/Respiratory Testing services across the Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) networked hospital sites now included Surrey and Sussex Hospitals- based at East Surrey Hospital, Reigate. The current service was set up during the CoVid pandemic, we are now moving to have a dedicated team to work diligently to provide rapid respiratory virus test results.
This post is focused on the new site at East Surrey Hospital and other Surrey sites.
BSPS, provide a comprehensive laboratory service to Frimley Health sites, the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Ashford and St Peters in Chertsey, Royal Berkshire hospital in Reading and now Surrey and Sussex, East Surrey Hospital, the POCT rapid testing service is part of this network.
The ability to travel independently between sites and work flexibly is essential. There will be a need to be able to move from site to site within the working day/shift.
The successful candidate will be required to work at all BSPS locations if required, but primarily at East Surrey and Royal Surrey hospitals., The successful applicant will be expected to supervise day to day activities of and work in the Rapid Respiratory Testing Team. Rapid Testing team. They will need to understand the need for quality control measures, participate in audit work, risk assessments and incident logging of errors. Duties include supervision of all quality requirements in line with UKAS requirements.
Will maintain all necessary record keeping and ensure training and competencies are completed and kept up to date.
Will work with Managers to ensure the quality and robustness of the current service.
Will assist with reporting into the Senior Management of the POCT SRRS team.
Will cover out of hours services reporting into the Senior BMS in the team.
Will carry out any necessary procedure to comply with the individual Trusts' POCT Policy., We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and confident individual to work as part of the Samba Rapid Respiratory Testing / Point of Care Testing Team, providing a comprehensive supporting role to all our SRRS staff across all sites.
The Point of Care Team co-ordinates the appraisal, introduction, and use of analytical devices in wards, clinics, and departments within the hospital trusts and in the community, allowing quality pathology results to be produced nearer the patient. The equipment overseen by POCT provides results that cover blood gas analysis, full blood count, blood glucose and ketones, and urinalysis.
In the last year the POCT services have expanded the scope to include Rapid Covid and respiratory virus testing, working with Emergency departments to achieve safe admissions pathways, community projects targeting Healthcare inequalities and Labkit Hospital@Home projects that support early inpatient discharge and admissions avoidance.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for more than 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust will act as the employing authority.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have 6 key hospital sites running the service - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough, St Peter's Hospital Chertsey, Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford, Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading and East Surrey, Reigate.
Frimley Health have three core values.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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties., 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.