Senior PA to Senior Nurses, NCQT

Job summary

This is an exciting and varied role that supports our Senior Nurses within the Nursing Care Quality Team, working with our frontline blood collection staff. The Nursing Care Quality Team provides professional leadership and guidance to nurses working within Blood Donation. An essential part of their work ensures the clinical safety and governance of the donation environment, and the training and competency of collection staff. They provide expertise in the management of clinical risk, operational research and the implementation of clinical change. The PA support role will assist the Senior Nurses in a range of activities and initiatives to improve donation safety and clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Senior Nurses and Senior PA to the Chief Nurse, Blood Supply with an in-depth knowledge of NHSBT processes and, where applicable, associated regulatory and statutory requirements.
• To take ownership of aspects of the Senior Nurses portfolio ensuring timely communication with internal / external stakeholders in line with the reporting cycle.
• To assist in planning meetings, including taking responsibility for setting time frames for required agenda items and taking formal minutes, as well as booking meeting venues.
• Be responsible for scheduling and allocation of business administration workload.
• Be responsible for providing formal minutes of both external and internal meetings, as well as providing comprehensive action logs.
• Provide business administration for Senior Nurse portfolios.
• Manage and coordinate workload to ensure that tasks are prioritised to meet specific deadlines, e.g. timely preparation of agenda planning, minute taking, managing course booking forms, and diary planning for forthcoming meetings.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours 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.