Registered Nurse - Blood Donation

Job summary

At NHS Blood and Transplant we help people to do something extraordinary - donate blood, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save and enhance lives. First and foremost, we play a unique and special role in the NHS. It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. You will be joining our organisation at an exciting time of change as we introduce this new Band 5 Registered Nurse role to our frontline multi-disciplinary teams. You will have the opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge in a forward-thinking environment that provides an opportunity to grow your career. Whether you join us as a newly qualified or experienced nurse, you will be supported to achieve your ambitions and full potential. Do you want to know what working as a Registered Nurse on a donor session looks like? View our video and hear directly from one of our Registered Nurses, what working here is really like and why you should consider investing your careers with us: Click here Your role with us will provide you with the opportunity to work alongside a Band 6 Nurse to apply and develop your valuable professional clinical knowledge. You will also develop your leadership skills to successfully deliver and contribute to continuous service improvements. Working in a fast moving and variable environment this essential role in the collection of blood and blood products will directly contribute to the saving and improving of patients lives.

Main duties of the job

As a registered Nurse you will use your clinical skills and knowledge to assess donor suitability to donate, ensuring donor and product safety, in line with regulatory and governance standards. Duties include: Supporting the Sister/Charge Nurse in organising session activities to provide assurance of staff, donor and product safety deploying session staff to ensure that donor throughput is as efficient, and customer focussed as possible. Obtaining and maintaining proficiency in all core blood/component collection skills including venepuncture and will deploy these skills when working on session. Be required to act quickly and immediately in the event of emergencies or other unexpected events on the session. Be responsible for assessment, planning, provision, maintenance, and evaluation of donor care, in line with NMC and NHSBT codes of conduct. Lead by example providing guidance to the collection team to deliver excellent donor care and service, through confident clinical leadership. Developing with us to lead the blood collection team. Communicate confidently, effectively, and succinctly, any clinical/ operational issues in relation to the donation session that may require escalation and action from management. Ability to travel between Blood Donation Centres and community venues in a timely manner during the working day. You will not be required to work night shifts. You will be required to work variable hours including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.