The Apheresis Nurse Team Manager will be required to line manage a team of Collection Staff aligned to the Apheresis clinic ensuring that department daily targets and monthly key performance indicators are achieved.
The post holder will also be the specialist nurse and expert in all aspects of the automated component collection process. The post holder will be responsible for maintaining expert knowledge of the speciality, enabling them to provide complex evidence-based advice, clinical leadership, supervision, mentorship, and support to other apheresis speciality staff.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 24 months, due to secondment cover. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
Main duties of the job
Will actively contribute to strategic and operational developments relating to the apheresis speciality, participating in apheresis specific clinical audit, research, and benchmarking activities to ensure that apheresis practice is effective, and evidence based.
Working closely with the Senior Operations manager and the Registered Nurses, the post holder will ensure that the highest standard of operational supervision is carried out in the clinic. This will include directing the Registered Nurses on duty to ensure that clinic activities and staff deployment in the clinic supports efficient donor throughput and a customer focused environment.
Working closely and having strong operational links with the Apheresis Consultant, the post holder will take the Welsh Blood Service lead in the optimisation of cell separator productivity and efficiency, ensuring supplier compliance with organisational objectives and ensuring a seamless service that enables excellent donor care, optimising donor safety.
There will be a requirement for the post holder to maintain competency with whole blood collection and they will be required to provide occasional cover through various teams and blood collections facilities such as blood mobiles and the community teams covering a large geographical area. There is a requirement for the post holder to provide cover for scheduled tours that will include overnight stays.
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.
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
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
* Educated to MSc level or equivalent experience.
* Evidence of ongoing personal development
* Understanding of the role the Welsh Blood Service plays in the wider community
* Knowledge and understanding of the blood/component process
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Understanding of confidentiality
* In depth knowledge of the apheresis speciality
* In depth knowledge of blood component collection processes
* Knowledge of working in a healthcare environment
* Leadership Qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience
* The ability to speak Welsh
Experience
* Extensive clinical experience
* Specialist knowledge in apheresis speciality
* Evidence of the application of leadership skills and autonomous practice
* Experience of working in a team
* Experience of working with people at all levels
* Participation in audit and research
* Apheresis Experience
Skills and Attributes
* Good communication, written and numeracy skills
* Trained in the use of apheresis automated equipment.
* Able to work methodically and accurately often with competing demands.
* Organisational and negotiation skills
* Motivational and change management skills.
* Demonstrates the ability to promote and foster good working relationships within a team and groups of teams
* Demonstrable experience of team working and leadership
* Be willing and able to develop own knowledge and skills to contribute to the development of others
* Integrity
* Motivational skills
* Assertive and confident
* Access to transport to allow travel to clinics daily
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.
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