Associate Practitioner

Role overview

This opportunity is for an Associate Practitioner / Laboratory Support Technician to join the Axess sexual health laboratory service. The post supports quality assurance, training, and day-to-day service delivery across the Axess region.

The successful candidate will help maintain laboratory standards across the service and provide practical support and training to teams at multiple Axess sites.

This is an exciting period to join the BMS team within Axess, as the service continues to adopt new technologies and extend support to other NHS organisations.

What the role involves

As a Biomedical Scientist Associate Practitioner (Band 4), you will contribute to the delivery of reliable diagnostic laboratory services within Clinical Microbiology / Pathology. Working under the direction of Senior and Specialist Biomedical Scientists, you will carry out routine and semi-complex laboratory procedures, operate and look after automated analysers, and support accurate and timely diagnosis of infectious diseases, including common STI pathogens.

The position plays an important part in achieving efficient turnaround times, upholding quality standards, and supporting patient care across the NHS laboratory service.

You will provide technical support for the diagnostic service to the wider team and service users, following departmental procedures and working under suitable supervision.

The post may also involve supervising, organising, assigning work to, and training less experienced colleagues within your area.

Working pattern

The laboratory support technician will work shifts, including Saturday duty. The role also involves some travel across the Cheshire and Mersey area as part of the Axess footprint.

About the organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust includes Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

The Trust is part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, which was created on 1 November 2024 through the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, with a shared goal of improving patient care.

UHLG is among the largest employers in the region, with more than 16,800 colleagues committed to supporting communities from birth onwards.

Serving 630,000 people across Merseyside, the organisation is the local NHS provider, delivering general and emergency hospital care as well as highly specialised regional services for over two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the only adult major trauma receiving site for Cheshire and Merseyside and also provides a range of regional services, including an award-winning stroke unit. Broadgreen Hospital offers elective surgical, diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation services. Liverpool Women’s Hospital focuses on women’s and babies’ health and delivers more than 7,200 babies each year in the UK’s largest single-site maternity hospital. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the country’s largest hospital with 100% single bedrooms for inpatients and a focus on complex planned care and specialist services.

Contact for informal discussion

Name: Ekemini Essen
Job title: Lead Biomedical Scientist
Email: Ekemini.Essen@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0151 706 2626

Additional information

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, applicants are directed to the Liverpool Women’s careers page.