Job summary
At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) we are continually developing our service to enable us to save and improve more lives every day and our Patient Blood Management team is no exception.
Patient Blood Management is a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to optimising the care of patients who might need blood transfusion.
We build on successes of the Department of Health Better Blood Transfusion initiatives and encompass measures to avoid transfusion such as anaemia management, cell salvage and the use of anti-fibrinolyic drugs to reduce bleeding. Always ensuring patient centred care.
This senior nursing or scientific post will play a key role in supporting clinical colleagues in hospitals and primary care settings to implement and deliver Patient Blood Management.
Main duties of the job
The overall aim of this role is to support hospitals to ensure that patients receive the optimal treatment, and that avoidable, inappropriate use of blood and blood components is reduced.
You will be joining NHSBT to be a key player in how we can further positively impact patient lives through Patient Blood Management and looking beyond the remit of hospital settings.
You will play a key role in supporting clinical colleagues to implement and deliver Patient Blood Management initiatives, making a significant contribution to reducing avoidable transfusion and promoting alternatives, and where this is not possible, enhancing safe and effective transfusion practice.
You will be responsible for leading activities designed to support Patient Blood Management. This will include provision of an on-going programme of support, education, audit, research and specialist transfusion advice. By building relationships with key individuals involved in transfusion, you will ensure a co-ordinated approach to improving clinical practice locally, regionally, and nationally.
You will have the opportunity to scope out new ways of working, lead national projects and explore innovative ways of helping to embed PBM into hospitals.
You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours at times and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supportinghospitals to ensure that patients receive the optimal treatment, and that avoidable, inappropriate use of blood and blood components is reduced. You will be joining NHSBT to be a key player in how we can further positively impact patient lives through Patient Blood Management and looking beyond the remit of hospital settings.
What we offer:
- You will be joining a service where we enable you to carry out research and actively encourage you to write publications.
- We offer opportunity for you to attend National and International Conferences to further develop your expertise.
- You will have the ability to work with a range of stakeholders and will not be hospital based with us!
- NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities and work/life balance is key to our Patient Blood Management team.
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
- Weve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. Its open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 20th November 2024. Interviews are anticipated to be held on or around Monday 9th December 2024
For informal enquiries please contact:
Name: Kairen Coffey
Job Title: National Operations Manager, Patient Blood Management Team
Contact Details: kairen.coffey@nhsbt.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supportinghospitals to ensure that patients receive the optimal treatment, and that avoidable, inappropriate use of blood and blood components is reduced. You will be joining NHSBT to be a key player in how we can further positively impact patient lives through Patient Blood Management and looking beyond the remit of hospital settings.
What we offer:
- You will be joining a service where we enable you to carry out research and actively encourage you to write publications.
- We offer opportunity for you to attend National and International Conferences to further develop your expertise.
- You will have the ability to work with a range of stakeholders and will not be hospital based with us!
- NHSBT promotes flexible working opportunities and work/life balance is key to our Patient Blood Management team.
- 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- NHS pension scheme. The NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns) Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
- Weve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. Its open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 20th November 2024. Interviews are anticipated to be held on or around Monday 9th December 2024
For informal enquiries please contact:
Name: Kairen Coffey
Job Title: National Operations Manager, Patient Blood Management Team
Contact Details: kairen.coffey@nhsbt.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN1 or RNA) on the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) register OR State Registration with the Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
- Be competent in the use of PC and mainframe computer-based packages.
- Demonstrates the ability to stay abreast of developments in transfusion.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD).
Experience
Essential
- Understand transfusion issues within hospitals and the challenges facing the transfusion environment.
- Recent experience either as a senior nurse in a setting in which blood transfusion plays a role in treatment OR as a state registered biomedical scientist working at senior level in transfusion.
- Experience of working both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Be able to demonstrate experience of training and/or audit work.
- Have experience of producing clinical and/or scientific material and ability to present it.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN1 or RNA) on the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) register OR State Registration with the Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
- Be competent in the use of PC and mainframe computer-based packages.
- Demonstrates the ability to stay abreast of developments in transfusion.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD).
Experience
Essential
- Understand transfusion issues within hospitals and the challenges facing the transfusion environment.
- Recent experience either as a senior nurse in a setting in which blood transfusion plays a role in treatment OR as a state registered biomedical scientist working at senior level in transfusion.
- Experience of working both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Be able to demonstrate experience of training and/or audit work.
- Have experience of producing clinical and/or scientific material and ability to present it.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
