Assistant Practitioner - COVID-19

New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. 3 out of 4 of our staff would recommend us and we are regularly in the top 20% of organisations for our staff motivation and engagement. It's no wonder that the Care Quality Commission have rated us a "Good".

We are an Acute and Community Trust based between the Pennines and Manchester City Centre. We employ almost 4,000 staff across Tameside & Glossop. We offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute.

Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.

As part of our recruitment process we can tell you more about our benefits package and you will see that we offer everything you would expect and more

DIRECTORATE OF LABORATORY MEDICINE (PATHOLOGY)

Blood Sciences Department

Assistant Practitioner - Band 4 - Fixed Term (12 months)

Full-time 37.5 hours per week (with out of hours shifts)

£21,892 - £24,157 Per Annum

Applications are invited for a keen enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual to join our small but friendly team. The post holder will act as an Assistant Practitioner in our busy Blood Sciences Department mainly processing specimens for rapid COVID 19 testing using SAMBA II analysers.

Tameside Hospital is situated eight miles to the east of Manchester and serves a population of approximately 250,000. The hospital is situated for easy access to both central Manchester and the Peak District.

Duties will include setting up and maintaining the analysers, testing swab samples for COVID 19, troubleshooting, computer data input, filing and stock control. In addition, this will include general specimen reception duties and communication with ward staff and technical personnel.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate 3 years’ experience working in a Pathology Laboratory and have a good knowledge of Laboratory Information Systems and other computer packages e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel. Good organisational and communication skills, manual dexterity, ability to show initiative and to work unsupervised and a keen eye for detail will also be required.

Further details of responsibilities can be found within the job description.

The service is currently operating between 6am and 10pm seven days per week. The post-holder will therefore be required to participate in a shift pattern in order to facilitate this.

For informal enquiries please contact

Kristy Dickson, Advanced BMS om 0161 922 4943

Alison Shanahan, Blood Sciences Manager on 0161 922 4620

The laboratory is UKAS ISO15189 Accredited