Lead Cardiothoracic CLU (Heart)

Job summary

Please note, this is a national role

The Heart Organ Lead CLU will provide clinical leadership for the heart transplant community, championing and promoting the values of organ utilisation and delivering the Heart Offer Review Scheme.

The successful candidate will be expected to establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders across the Organ Utilisation community, being an advocate and voice of challenge. They will seek to understand and influence the relationships between organ donation and organ acceptance, liaising with Regional Clinical Leads for Organ Donation, and identifying opportunities for collaboration.

Role requirements include Identifying and prioritising projects, with the ability to optimise utilisation potential by minimising missed transplant opportunities. Identifying barriers to increased organ utilisation, both within heart transplantation and more widely, and promoting the benefits of projects already undertaken will inform further initiatives, including in paediatric organ utilisation. The Lead CLU will work with Local Heart CLUs to increase Organ Utilisation, providing support and guidance as appropriate.

We welcome applications from Transplant Physicians and Transplant Surgeons actively involved in clinical utilisation, able to influence clinical and management decision-making at a national level.

Main duties of the job

• Lead, support and develop regular community meetings with local CLUs.
• Member of the Organ Utilisation Development Team.
• Attendance at NHSBT meetings for Organ Lead CLUs and relevant Advisory Group meetings.
• Development of action plans and reporting for Heart utilisation
• Deliver Offer Review Scheme.
• Additional activities include providing triage and assure correspondence in respect of role and utilisation issues as required.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll 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.