Sister/Charge Nurse
NHS Blood and Transplant
The closing date is 20 October 2024
Job summary
You will be responsible for leading a team of Healthcare Assistants and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well-trained, and capable of delivering excellent care. You will be expected to foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training, and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise. You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation. This includes considering the donor's medical history, current health status, and any other relevant factors. This role requires strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements. Youll be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.
Main duties of the job
Taking clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors. Being accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session. Taking responsibility for ensuring an excellent donor experience. Maintaining the competency and skills of your team and yourself. Being able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations. Maintaining your professional development to help us deliver improvements to our practice. Your working hours will be: On a shift basis but, the normal hours for this role are 2 days per week/ 4 days per fortnight. Early shifts start at 07:40 and finish 16:30. Late shifts start at 10:25 and finish 19:15, this will be 8.33 hour days. Weekend and bank holiday working will be required. You can expect to work some long hours, but you wont be working more than five days a week.
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.
Date posted
03 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
005155
Job locations
NHSBT
Cathedral Court
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2GN
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
NHSBT
Cathedral Court
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2GN
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