Associate Practitioner, Point of Care Testing - Whittington Hospital, London
Whittington Hospital, London
Up to £38,004 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance
Job Title: Associate Practitioner
Department: Point of Care Testing
Location: Whittington Hospital, N19 5NF
Contract /Hours: Permanent/37.5 per week
Salary range: Up to £38,004 per annum DOE inclusive of regional pay allowance
About us:
Sonic Healthcare is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.
Sonic Healthcare UK encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 3,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.
Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.
About the role:
A vacancy has arisen for an Associate Practitioner in our Point of Care Testing (POCT) Department based at Whittington Hospital.
The post holder will be required to perform a range of tasks on multiple pieces of POCT equipment across the clinical wards and departments the service covers, according to standard operating procedures. This will include remotely monitoring equipment and physically visiting the wards to troubleshoot and perform maintenance. The post holder will be expected to independently provide training on routine POCT equipment to service users. The role has standard working hours of 9-5:30 Monday-Friday.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys laboratory work but likes to be involved in the wider hospital environment and will involve interaction with various clinical teams across the hospital site.
Prior experience of laboratory working is essential for this role, experience working in POCT would be advantageous but full training will be given to the successful applicant.
At HSL/TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
• Training and development opportunities – supporting professional development
• Annual salary review - salary and progression are aligned to our internal transparent pay structure (Progression Plus), supporting career development and structured annual salary reviews
• Discounted gym membership – we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
• Cash healthcare plan – cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians
• Sick Pay Entitlement – one month’s full pay and one month’s half pay after probation
• Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover
• Life Assurance – providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme – supporting staff wellbeing
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme – interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket
• Perkbox – Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts
• Company Pension Scheme – company and staff contributions which increase with service
• Competitive annual leave allowance – 29 days.
• Flexible working hours – we support and offer flexibility around shift patterns and working schedule