Directorate: Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Services
Location: Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry
Contract and Hours: Permanent / Full-Time (10 PAs)
Job summary
The postholder will provide a comprehensive clinical biochemistry service for all users of the laboratory. The consultant will provide expert support for the diagnosis and management of biochemical clinical problems, advice on appropriate investigations on an individual patient basis and determine the repertoire provided by the clinical biochemistry department within the resources made available to the directorate. The consultant will take a lead role in clinical liaison and clinical audit.
Laboratory responsibilities
• To support the day-to-day management of the clinical biochemistry laboratories in Altnagelvin Hospital and SWAH.
• To support ongoing service development, audit and quality assurance and accreditation processes.
• To act as Clinical Lead for POCT team.
• To provide clinical liaison for service users from hospital and community teams.
• To take all measures to ensure consistently high standards of performance are achieved and maintained in all laboratories.
• To work collaboratively with all other members of the laboratory staff.
Clinical responsibilities
• The post holder will act as lead for the WHSCT Lipid Clinic service [see above].
• The successful candidate who has clinical interests in other areas e.g. diabetes, nutrition etc. will be able to discuss on appointment opportunities to develop these.
Clinical liaison and scientific duties and responsibilities
• To liaise with laboratory service users (primary and secondary care) to aid interpretation of laboratory results.
• To liaise with clinical and managerial colleagues in primary and secondary care.
• To respond in a timely manner to advice and guidance requests.
• To support the quality manager in the running of a quality laboratory service.
• To participate fully in quality control and quality assurance processes.
• To oversee any changes to laboratory automation or processes that may affect the scientific validity of results.
Out of hours
The postholder will work with colleagues to provide a 24/7 on-call service to support laboratory users including support for clinical advice, interpretation and guidance where needed. Occasional return to site may be required only in exceptional circumstances.
It is anticipated that the frequency of on call would be no more onerous than 1:4 and is likely to be reviewed under the N. Ireland Pathology Blueprint Programme.
For complete details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.
