Point of Care Testing Coordinator
Core
Lead the operational management, governance, and strategic development of a Point of Care Testing (POCT) service across a large University NHS Hospital Trust, supporting thousands of patients daily in emergency, acute, outpatient, and community settings.
Role type
Senior IC Biomedical/Clinical Scientist (POCT Service Lead)
Builds
Safe, compliant, and reliable POCT services using advanced analysers for rapid diagnostics and monitoring.
Domain
Healthcare / Clinical Laboratory / Point of Care Testing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Operational management of POCT services, governance and quality assurance, policy and procedure development, internal and external quality control, equipment validation and verification, staff training and competency assessment, incident investigation, change management, technical verification of assays and reagents, interpretation of diagnostic results.
Preferred skills
Formal management training, continuing professional development in POCT, coaching and counselling skills.
Technologies
Radiometer ABL90 Flex, Cepheid GeneXpert, Nova StatStrip 2, Nova StatStrip Xpress, Microsoft ICT tools.
Responsibilities
Lead operational delivery of the Trust-wide POCT service, provide professional leadership and day-to-day management of the POCT team, maintain governance and quality management systems, develop and implement POCT policies and procedures, oversee quality control and audit programmes, lead investigations into quality incidents and equipment failures, manage equipment implementation and replacement programmes, act as Trust expert providing specialist advice, deliver education and training for clinical users, participate in service improvement and research projects, support development of business cases for new services.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities