SAMBA Rapid Respiratory Service (SRRS) Senior Associate Practitioner
Location
Frimley, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/15/2025
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Description
Job Overview
The POCT team can announce the fantastic opportunity to be part of a new team to manage and direct the SAMBA Rapid Respiratory Service (SRRS) across the Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) 6 networked hospital sites, now including Surrey and Sussex Hospitals – based at East Surrey Hospital, Reigate. The current service was set up during the pandemic, and we are now moving to have a dedicated team to work diligently to provide rapid respiratory virus test results.
BSPS is a large network of NHS laboratories serving 5 acute NHS Trusts: Ashford & St Peter’s NHS FT, Frimley Health NHS FT, Royal Berkshire NHS FT, Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and Royal Surrey NHS FT.
The ability to travel independently between sites and work flexibly is essential. There will be a need to be able to move site to site within the working day/shift.
The successful candidate will be required to work at all BSPS locations if required.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to supervise day to day activities of and work of the SRRS team. They will need to understand the need for quality control measures, participate in audit work, risk assessments and incident logging of errors. Duties also include supervision of all quality requirements in line with UKAS requirements.
The successful applicant will
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
The POCT team can announce the fantastic opportunity to be part of a new team to manage and direct the SAMBA Rapid Respiratory Service (SRRS) across the Berkshire Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) 6 networked hospital sites, now including Surrey and Sussex Hospitals – based at East Surrey Hospital, Reigate. The current service was set up during the pandemic, and we are now moving to have a dedicated team to work diligently to provide rapid respiratory virus test results.
BSPS is a large network of NHS laboratories serving 5 acute NHS Trusts: Ashford & St Peter’s NHS FT, Frimley Health NHS FT, Royal Berkshire NHS FT, Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and Royal Surrey NHS FT.
The ability to travel independently between sites and work flexibly is essential. There will be a need to be able to move site to site within the working day/shift.
The successful candidate will be required to work at all BSPS locations if required.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to supervise day to day activities of and work of the SRRS team. They will need to understand the need for quality control measures, participate in audit work, risk assessments and incident logging of errors. Duties also include supervision of all quality requirements in line with UKAS requirements.
The successful applicant will
- maintain all necessary record keeping and ensure training and competencies are completed and kept up to date
- work with Managers to ensure the quality and robustness of the service
- assist with reporting into the Senior Management of the POCT SRRS team
- cover out of hours services reporting into the Senior BMS in the team with issues put side the scope of the Band 5 role
- carry out any necessary procedure to comply with the individual Trusts’ POCT Policy.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc degree or equivalent qualification or experience
- Working towards or committed to work towards Registration Portfolio
- POC experience that can be evidenced in detail
- ECDL
- Experience of Access databases, Poccelerator, LIMs or other POCT middleware
- Health Care Professions Council State Registration as a Biomedical Scientist
- Evidence of relevant CPD for POCT experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of laboratory/point of care testing
- Experience with validation protocol for POCT analysers, acceptance testing and quality control procedures
- Experience of working in a Laboratory team, assisting with training and competency
- Experience of ISO requirements for Laboratory standards
Essential criteria
- Technically proficient
- Good computer/IT skills
- Good co-ordination and dexterity
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders, both internal and external
- Good presentation skills for conveying complex concepts
- Team working and team building skills
- Ability to embrace change
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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