Specialist Nurse Organ Donation

Job summary

You will play a key role in saving and improving lives through being an ambassador for our services and be a central point for medical teams to help deliver and facilitate a successful organ and tissue donation process. You will have the opportunity to help patients and families and unite team to deliver life-saving services.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Using your clinical skills and experience to ensure the safety of our donors and recipients.

2. Coordinating the theatre process to ensure a safe and effective retrieval of organs and tissues.

3. Responding to referring hospitals to provide advice, information and support.

4. Undertaking patient assessment and screening to identify potential donors.

5. Communicating with hospital colleagues to facilitate the organ donation conversation with families.

6. Advising on interventions in the appropriate clinical management of the potential donor.

7. Developing key relationships with hospital colleagues to ensure that no opportunity for donation is missed.

8. Acting as an Ambassador to promote organ donation.

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.