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Annex 21 will also be considered.
Use specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, authorise test results integrating and initiating further tests as appropriate. Take responsibility for finishing, checking, validating and authorising the work of colleagues as necessary. Check validity and reliability of analytical processes, maintaining and monitoring satisfactory performance by internal quality control and external quality assessment. Ensure that external QA program results are collated and transmitted to organisers.
Manipulation of materials and objects such as analysers, and pipettes for accurate and reliable determination of results and diagnosis. Set up and check instrumentation for correct operation, troubleshooting and correcting faults. Maintain instrument, QC and reagent logs and utilise resources cost effectively. Monitor fridges, freezer alarms and incubators and react to alarm / failure situations.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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- Assist senior staff in the technical, development and managerial work of the laboratory.
- Provide expertise in theory and practice.
- Provide timely and accurate test results using appropriate equipment both automated and manual.
- Routine and specialist analyses, validation, interpretation and reporting of results.
- Maintain complex analytical equipment.
- Involved in the supervision, teaching, advising and informing off all grades of staff particularly in Routine theory and techniques.
- Member of the Department’s team responsible for stock control.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with all aspects of Caldicott.
- Build upon the post holders acquired technical and analytical knowledge achieved through specialist training and a BSc in Biomedical Sciences or equivalent.
- Gain specialized technical and analytical knowledge by participating in ongoing training and experience.
- Maintain specialist technical and analytical knowledge by participating in CPD.
- Ensure compliance with all local and national standards of work practice.
- Maintain the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform specialised procedures
- Maintain the necessary specialist knowledge and skills sufficient to work independently, seeking advise only when deemed necessary.
Please also refer to the Job Description attached.
