University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Provide specialist blood transfusion advice as a clinical specialist to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers in collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with the local and national targets. The post holder will work as a member of the Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT) and in conjunction with the Hospital Transfusion Group (HTG). They will work trust wide, utilising their extensive knowledge and skill base to provide specialist/technical support, assessing quality of clinical service and other practice learning environments, propose and deliver interventions for improvement. The Transfusion Practitioner (TP) assists the Site Lead Transfusion Practitioner in providing clinical leadership and management support, developing, and evaluating best practice Trust Wide. The post-holder will deputise for the Transfusion Practitioner Site Leads as required, in implementing the requirements derived from the Department of Health circulars. They will also liaise and maintain links with educational bodies to support practice education.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for a Transfusion Practitioner to join our team working at University Hospitals Birmingham.
You will be key in ensuring the safety of patients undergoing blood transfusion. You'll have the chance to work not only across our hospitals, but in renal dialysis units, hospices, and some of our neighbouring sites, including the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.
You'll be a great fit for this role if you:
* Are a registered nurse, midwife, biomedical scientist, or operating department practitioner
* Have UK experience with blood transfusions working in either:
o A ward or in theatres where you have administered blood transfusions
o A transfusion laboratory (blood bank)
* Have a passion for making improvements based on findings from investigating incidents and completing audits, and implementing these through teaching and training, and producing educational materials.
As this role is supporting staff rather than caring for patients or working in the laboratory, we recognise that many of our tasks you are not likely to have experienced before, as such you will be working with experienced practitioners and will have the opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge working in this multidisciplinary team.
Job responsibilities
*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nurse/MW: Current NMC registration
* BMS: HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist with a specialist portfolio in relevant area or equivalent experience
* ODP: HCPC registration as an Operating department practitioner
* All: BSc in relevant subject or equivalent experience in a relevant area and evidence of study at level 5
* *Evidence of post registration/qualification professional development
* *Recognised Teaching qualification
* *Health Management/Care or Leadership Degree
Experience
* *Recent experience of working in an acute health care provider
* *Broad experience of transfusion in a clinical or laboratory setting
* *Audit and quality assurance experience
* *Experienced team member working in a multidisciplinary environment with established supervisory/team or shift leadership skills.
* *Experience in learning from incidents/complaints and supporting changes in practice.
* *Ability to demonstrate an understanding of blood/laboratory management systems.
* *Ability to interpret blood results/diagnostic laboratory results.
* *Knowledge of UK blood transfusion practice, laws and guidelines
* *Knowledge of Clinical Governance, audit, risk and compliance management and Health & Safety regulations
* *Demonstrate ability, experience, passion in the following:
o Leadership
o Managing resources
o Time management
o Clinical governance
o NHS Policy and political awareness
Additional Criteria
* *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
* *Approachable and friendly
* *Good command of spoken and written English
* *Confident in working across professional and organisational boundaries with a range of health care professionals.
* *Ability to work the hours required flexibly.
* *Willingness to work across all trust sites.
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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