This is your opportunity to join a diverse team working across University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHSFT and beyond ensuring the safety of patients undergoing blood transfusion.
We are looking for an experienced Nurse/midwife, BMS or ODP to complement our transfusion team.
As one of the Transfusion Practitioners you will part of the hospital transfusion team and in this post will be responsible for providing advice to clinical teams, supporting training and education and the investigation of incidents. You will be expected to work across sites routinely.
You will be required to deliver practical training and lectures to individuals or small groups and attend meetings of the hospital transfusion team as well as directorate specific meetings, regional and national transfusion meetings, and conferences. You will be responsible for training and supporting clinical staff in sample collection, transfusion administration, accessing and maintaining blood storage devices which will include ensuring staff understand their responsibilities in relation to compliance with regulations.
Blood transfusion is a highly regulated field to ensure patient safety; this role plays a vital part in ensuring UHB complies with the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and ISO15189 standards in relation to blood component storage and blood traceability. You will be assisting to ensure that UHB can demonstrate how it is complying with the regulations. To achieve this you will be expected to undertake audits, reported on a local and national level. You will investigate incidents, ensuring findings are appropriately acted upon, and ensure evidence is completed to show the transfusion service is running safely and efficiently. You will also be encouraged to identify areas and plans for quality improvements.
You will be well organised, able to converse with a wide range of staff groups and have a good understanding of clinical or laboratory transfusion practice in the UK. Whilst in post you will be supported to understand the whole transfusion pathway through both the clinical areas and laboratory..
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Nurse/MW: Current NMC registration
BMS: HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist with a specialist portfolio in relevant area or equivalent experience
ODP: HCPC registration as an Operating department practitioner
All: BSc in relevant subject or equivalent experience in a relevant area and evidence of study at level 5
Evidence of post registration/qualification professional development
Recent experience of working in an acute health care provider
Broad experience of transfusion in a clinical or laboratory setting
Audit and quality assurance experience
Experienced team member working in a multidisciplinary environment with established supervisory/team or shift leadership skills
Experience in learning from incidents/complaints and supporting changes in practice
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of blood/laboratory management systems
Ability to interpret blood results/diagnostic laboratory results
Knowledge of UK blood transfusion practice, laws and guidelines
Knowledge of Clinical Governance, audit, risk and compliance management and Health & Safety regulations
Demonstrate ability, experience, passion in the following:
o Leadership
o Managing resources
o Time management
o Role modelling
Change management/clinical developments
o Clinical governance
o NHS Policy and political awareness
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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