The Welsh Blood Service supported by the Blood Health National Oversight Group (BHNOG) has secured funding for a unique opportunity to ensure delivery of anaemia management services across Wales.
The post will suit a Consultant seeking to add an additional session to their existing job plan.
This role would be to give strategic oversight to the delivery of anaemia services across Wales, including ensuring implementation of the All Wales Preoperative Anaemia Pathway and wider perioperative anaemia management. They would ensure equity of access to all patients seen in perioperative care as well as ensure delivery of the key performance indicators for anaemia management as part of the national strategy for Wales. Ultimately this role will ensure wider implementation of anaemia management aligning with key priorities within NHS Wales for example women's health. The role will report to the BHNOG group and directly to WBS Medical Director.
This individual should be a consultant employed within NHS Wales and have a role within perioperative care whether surgery or anaesthesia. They should have an established track record in patient blood management and if possible have prior experience developing and implementing an anaemia service.
The individual should demonstrate the key skills of quality improvement as well as team leadership.
The remuneration for this role will be 0.2 WTE or 2 sessions per week.
Applicants will be invited to a short MS Teams interview.
Main duties of the job
* Identifying all key stakeholders in perioperative management anaemia within each Health Board in NHS Wales.
* Actively promote the principles of Patient Blood Management.
* Contributing to a proactive, informed and empowered preoperative anaemia team funded through VBHC through positive examples, encouraging team members to share best practice, support innovation and raise issues and concerns as appropriate.
* Creating a forum for stakeholders in perioperative anaemia management - this could be a virtual forum to enable perioperative medicine (POMs) to exchange suggestions, seek and offer advice and discuss relevant topics.
* Including a regular item on agendas for reporting to relevant senior management meetings including but not exclusive to quarterly BHNOG meetings.
* Monitoring the implementation of the All Wales Perioperative Anaemia Pathway across NHS Wales.
* Engaging and sharing best practice with clinical colleagues through a facilitated network and annual conferences/events.
* Acting as an early point of contact to help and advise individual perioperative leads where required, complementary to existing structures, including signposting internally and to external organisations.
* Evidencing benefits of the implementation of the All Wales Perioperative Anaemia Pathway.
About us
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value-based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more: Velindre University NHS Trust.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualification and/or Knowledge
* Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
* Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
* Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
* Be on the Specialist Register, or within 6 months of anticipated CCT/CESR (CP) date or have a qualification regarded by the GMC as a relevant qualification.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Evidence of management and leadership training and a commitment to ongoing professional development in these areas.
* Recognised UK qualification as an Anaesthetist or another Specialty involving Patient blood management or perioperative medicine.
Experience
* Proven experience in patient blood management (PBM) and have prior experience developing and implementing a pre-operative anaemia service.
* Broad knowledge of general medicine.
* Experience of clinical audit.
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Proven experience of managing and leading clinical teams.
* Experience of improving services - critically evaluating and encouraging improvement and innovation.
* Proven strategic leadership.
* Understanding of issues affecting the perioperative pathway and management of anaemia in a range of settings including hospital and primary care.
* Ability to engage effectively, capable of challenging and effecting change with senior management.
* Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and hold professional relationships and develop trust with individual health care professionals, management and other stakeholders.
* Ability to liaise with key stakeholders, including the Medical Director, educational/clinical supervisors, medical staffing/HR colleagues.
* Expert Knowledge and track record of research and development (MD or PhD or equivalent are desirable).
Aptitude and Abilities
* Self-motivated, proactive and innovative.
* Demonstrates ability to work with others - building and maintaining relationships working in teams and networks.
* Demonstrates the ability to influence, persuade and negotiate with others within and external to the organisation.
* Enquiring, critical approach to work.
* Demonstrates an awareness of the most effective means to communicate.
* Able to work against a background of change and uncertainty.
* Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit.
* Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at a local, regional or national level.
* Willingness and ability to undertake travel and spend time away from base to meet the requirements of the post.
* Ability to speak Welsh or willingness to learn.
Values
* To align with VUNHST values.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£106,000 to £154,760 a year pro rata per annum.
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