Point of Care Service Manager

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Point of Care Testing (POCT) Lead to lead, manage, and develop POCT services across the Trust. This is a senior role within Pathology Services, providing professional and operational leadership for all aspects of POCT, ensuring compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and governance requirements while supporting safe, highquality patient care. The post holder will work closely with clinical teams, pathology colleagues, quality teams, and external suppliers to ensure effective implementation, oversight, and continuous improvement of POCT services., The Point of Care Testing (POCT) Lead is a specialist healthcare scientist role responsible for the day to day delivery, quality and governance of the POCT service across the Trust. The post holder is HCPC registered and educated to master's level, or holds an equivalent level of specialist knowledge, with extensive post registration experience and an in-depth understanding of UKAS and ISO requirements and quality management systems. Working within defined occupational policies, the post holder is the recognised day to day lead for the service, analysing complex quality and performance data, advising clinical and non-clinical staff across the Trust, and leading the development of guidelines, procedures and service improvements for POCT.

• Provide strategic, operational, and professional leadership for Point of Care Testing across the Trust
• Ensure POCT services comply with national standards, regulatory requirements, and accreditation (e.g. UKAS ISO 22870/15189)
• Develop, implement, and monitor POCT policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures
• Act as the Trust expert and lead advisor on POCT, providing specialist guidance to clinical and managerial staff
• Lead and support POCT training, competency assessment, and ongoing education for clinical users
• Manage POCT quality assurance, audit, incident investigation, and corrective actions
• Oversee evaluation, procurement, validation, and implementation of new POCT equipment and assays
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour