EXPRESSION OF INTEREST - COVID-19 NATIONAL TESTING PROGRAMME

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST - COVID-19 NATIONAL TESTING 

PROGRAMME

Following recent government advice, the College needs to make plans to begin rapid 

Lateral Flow Testing (LFT) for asymptomatic staff and students in our post 16 Pre-

Degree centre from January 2021. When the scheme launches staff will be able to 

have routine testing once a week; students and staff will be able to take ‘serial 

testing’ if they are a close contact of a positive case in college.

We are looking for expressions of interest from our staff body to assist us with 

delivering this national testing programme, you may be a proportional/part time 

member of staff, Student Ambassador, Young Arts Club/Short Course Tutor, 

Volunteer 

or Alumni.  You will need to be able to commit to a number of hours/days per week, 

currently we do not have this detail nor pay scales but will forward this when we know.

The roles we would like to receive expressions of interest for are:

●        Quality Lead/ Team Leader - Responsible for the overall on-site 

operations at the test site, including day-to-day workforce management. 

Ensure quality assurance, incidents, risks mitigation across the testing service.  

Ideally this role would have some clinical governance experience (i.e. medical 

professional/St Johns Ambulance/Red Cross or nursing background)

●        Test Assistant - Provides guidance and supervision to subjects on 

swabbing as requested. Collects completed swabs and passes them to the 

Processing Operatives. Ensures cleaning of the test area between each test.

●        Processing Operative - Prepares test sample for analysis, conducts 

processing of a Lateral Flow Test (LFT) and interprets result. Provides 

results to the Results Recorder. Ensures cleaning of processing bays.

Training will be available through online and onsite, further details will follow.

If you wish to express your interest in helping the college to deliver this scheme then 

please email hr@pca.ac.uk, with details of your role preference and availability.  It 

would also be useful to have some indication of any experience you might bring to 

these roles.

Closing date: 4 January 2021 (09:00am).