Senior Perfusionist

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

The closing date is 24 April 2025

Job summary

The role comes with a pro-rata Recruitment and Retention Payment of £3500 divided over 12 months (for Band 8a only) and a payment towards relocation expenses subject to the relocation policy.

We are looking for a motivated qualified Senior Perfusion Scientist with a minimum of 3 years post accreditation experience to join our friendly team of around 20 colleagues of Perfusionists and Surgical Care Practitioners. We are one of the few Centres in the UK to deliver Adult, Paediatric and ECMO services, which will provide you with a vast range of skills and experiences.

Our Centre is busy, exciting and dynamic and we are proud to be the recipients of the 2022 Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland best Perfusion Team of the year award.

You will be a qualified, autonomous practitioner who is keen to participate in all aspects of the service and able to deliver a wide-ranging and comprehensive extra-corporeal life support service to patients undergoing open heart surgery and/or other related procedures. You will use a broad range of vital, complex and specialised procedures requiring skilled performance with a high level of individual responsibility applied to a variety of situations.

The Centre currently undertakes 1000 adult and 250 neonatal/paediatric cases, along with 100 neonatal, paediatric and adult ECMO's and IABP support. participation in an on call rota is essential.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be a qualified and autonomous practitioner required to deliver a wide-ranging and comprehensive extra-corporeal and life support service, including Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (in-house and transport), IABP support and cell salvage to patients undergoing open heart surgery and/or other related procedures in Operating Theatres, Adult, Paediatric and General Intensive Care Units, Cardiac Investigation Laboratories, and Coronary Care and High Dependency Units. You will use a broad range of vital, complex and specialised techniques requiring skilled performance with a high level of individual responsibility applied to a variety of situations, and within the overall responsibility of the Manager, Clinical Perfusion. You will participate fully in the development of the protocols and techniques to enable the clinical group to meet its contractual and professional targets.

You must be accredited by the Society of Perfusionists of Great Britain & Ireland and registered with the College of Clinical Perfusionists of Great Britain & Ireland. It would be an advantage to be conversant with all relevant perfusion techniques. However training will be given in Paediatrics and ECMO if only Adult trained and vice versa.

The department currently undertakes 1000 adult and 350 neonatal/paediatric cases, along with 100 neonatal, paediatric and adult ECMO's and IABP support.

About us

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

high-quality care for all,
being a great place to work,
partnerships for impact, and
research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

we are compassionate,
we are proud,
we are inclusive, and
we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/

Date posted

10 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum / pro rota for part time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

358-6986070-RRC-A

Job locations

Glenfield Hospital

Groby Road

Leicester

LE3 9QP

Job description

Job responsibilities

In conjunction with the Deputy Manager, Clinical Perfusion, ensure the provision of extracorporeal circulation, life support systems, ventricular assist devices, haemoconcentration, cell salvage, and autonomous assessment and maintenance of physiological parameters.

Assists in formulating policies for the smooth running of the Clinical Perfusion Department and makes recommendations for improvement and development.

The post-holder will provide clinical and scientific advice, and provide interpretation of results to clinicians throughout the Trust and to external agencies.

Draw on knowledge of a range of theories to inform practice.

Assist in developing strategies for the management and delivery of care for the patient group.

Setting up, priming and running cardiopulmonary bypass equipment for cardiac surgery procedures, according to the perfusion procedures and protocols and to play a full role in the routine cardiac surgery programme

Ensure quality control, calibration and maintenance of expensive and complex medical equipment, ensuring accurate and safe use during clinical procedures.

Assess the patient for relevant medical history, pathology and diagnosis and make appropriate clinical decisions concerning the conduct of the procedure i.e. type of cannulation, size and type of equipment, type of priming solution.

Administer fluids and drugs according to local policy and as necessitated by the clinical situation i.e. priming solutions, anticoagulants, inhalational anaesthetic agents, potassium, and cardioplegic solution.

Be conversant with specialist techniques and perfusion procedures as required by individual patients such as left-heart bypass, cerebral perfusion, and vacuum assisted venous drainage, ventricular assist devices and blood conservation techniques.

Assist surgical and cardiology staff in the insertion and management of intra-aortic balloon pumps as required by individual patients.

Take a full role in departmental and individual projects, with a commitment to research based clinical practice.

Contribute to evidence based clinical practice to maximise clinical effectiveness.

The post-holder is required to participate in out of hours/on-call arrangements and to ensure continued co-operation, flexibility and reasonable cover during absence of colleagues and operational demands of the Directorate.

Participate in the training of Perfusionists, and other staff as directed, and the supervision of staff in lower grades as appropriate.

Consolidate specialist skills, knowledge and expertise in clinical practice. Applying these skills to the supervision and training of others in the department and the multidisciplinary team.

Ensure communication is upheld between all disciplines throughout the directorate

Liaison with all relevant staff in research projects related to Perfusion Science.

Any other reasonable duty which may be delegated.

Assists in formulating policies for the smooth running of the Clinical Perfusion Department and makes recommendations for improvement and development. The post-holder will provide clinical and scientific advice, and provide interpretation of results to clinicians throughout the Trust and to external agencies. Draw on knowledge of a range of theories to inform practice. Assist in developing strategies for the management and delivery of care for the patient group.

Ensure quality control, calibration and maintenance of expensive and complex medical equipment, ensuring accurate and safe use during clinical procedures.

Be conversant with specialist techniques and perfusion procedures as required by individual patients such as left-heart bypass, cerebral perfusion, vacuum assisted venous drainage, ventricular assist devices and blood conservation techniques.