Your role with us will provide you with the opportunity to work alongside a Band 6 Nurse to apply and develop your valuable professional clinical knowledge. You will also develop your leadership skills to successfully deliver and contribute to continuous service improvements. Working in a fast moving and variable environment this essential role in the collection of blood and blood products will directly contribute to the saving and improving of patient’s lives. Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process. At NHSBT, all of our nursing teams are supported by an excellent framework of practice development, offering ongoing professional development to enable us to have a strong sense of professional pride whilst we deliver a safe and quality product to our hospitals and the best standard of care to our service users. Focused induction and training programme, with ongoing assessment and continuous development. All recruited B5 registered nurses will be offered a 6–12 Month preceptorship. Professional development including: NHSBT e-learning hub of online learning resources Leadership and Management programmes. Corporate Nursing Team who facilitates various professional development opportunities specific to Nursing, including Clinical Leadership, Clinical Supervision and Professional Nurse Advocates (PNA’s). NHSBT Nursing Council, providing a forum to share best practice, support and evaluate implementation of our NHSBT Nursing Strategy. Potential funding opportunities for external studies where this has been identified during your Personal Development Review. Apprenticeships, work-based learning programmes. Opportunity to work both within donor centres and within community mobile teams Minimum 27 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank/public holidays dependent on length of service NHS Pension Scheme - defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: If you are shortlisted for this role, you will need to attend in person for a blood collection session tour so we can provide you with a more in-depth understanding of this role. This will then be followed by a face-to-face interview. I regret that we are unable to arrange virtual interviews or tours. Please also note that our travel policy does not allow for the payment of travel expenses. This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Monday 25th November 2024. Shortlisting will take place on Tuesday 26th November 2024. Session visits will be available week commencing Monday 2nd December 2024 – subject to confirmation. Interviews are anticipated to be held Monday 9th December 2024 – subject to confirmation. For informal enquiries please contact John Townsend Senior Charge Nurse John.Townsend@nhsbt.nhs.uk