Senior Healthcare Technical Officer

Job summary

Your essential role in the supporting, testing, storing and distribution of blood and blood products will directly contribute to the saving and improving of patients lives.

We will provide you with an extensive induction and training programme and ongoing development to support you in your role and achieving your career ambitions.

As part of the process, you will have the opportunity to attend our Blood Centre, so that you can gain an understanding of the requirements of this essential role.

Main duties of the job

• You will be required to perform a range of scientific and technical activities to support the cryopreservation of Stem Cells and manufacture of investigational medicinal products
• You will be required to clean maintain and perform environmental monitoring of the cleanroom suite to a high specification. This will require wearing cover-all garments while inside the clean rooms.
• You will be required to maintain stocks and reagents in-line with MHRA regulations
• The role will require you to work standard hours and days. Occasionally, there may be a requirement to work some evenings, weekends and bank holidays depending on the project schedule, but with appropriate notice
• You will be required to manually handle equipment on a daily basis weighing up to 13 kgs, with or without mechanical aids, with appropriate training
• You will be responsible for the support and training of new and less experienced staff

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.