Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Blood Bank Pathology
Requirements
Candidates must have relevant professional registration and experience in transfusion practices, along with a BSc in a relevant subject. Essential skills include leadership, teamwork, and a strong understanding of clinical governance and blood management systems.
Job Description
Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner -- cross site working.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small diverse transfusion practitioner's team working across site at University Hospitals Birmingham ensuring the safety of patients undergoing blood transfusion. If you have a passion for teaching, training, investigating incidents, Audits, producing educational materials and can adapt to challenging situation this is the post for you. Everything we do impacts on patients' safety surrounding blood components, so we aim, as a team, to promote and develop safe transfusion practice. The working hours are from Monday to Friday 0800-1600.
We are looking for an Allied Healthcare Professional nurse/midwife/biomedical scientist/ODP to complement our team. Applicants may contact the transfusion practitioners for an informal visit or discussion in 0121 424 1183 or 0121 371 5970
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
Blood transfusion is a highly regulated field to ensure patient safety; this role plays a vital part in ensuring UHB complies with the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and ISO15189 standards in relation to blood component storage and blood traceability. You will be assisting to ensure that UHB can demonstrate how it is complying with the regulations. To achieve this, you will be expected to undertake audits, reported on a local and national level. You will investigate incidents, ensuring findings are appropriately acted upon, and ensure evidence is completed to show the transfusion service is running safely and efficiently. You will also be encouraged to identify areas and plans for quality improvements. You will be well organised, able to converse with a wide range of staff groups and have a good understanding of clinical or laboratory transfusion practice within the UK. Whilst in post you will be supported to understand the whole transfusion pathway through both the clinical areas and laboratory.
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
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
Essential
- 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:
oManaging resources
oTime management
oRole modelling
oChange management/clinical developments
oClinical governance
NHS Policy and political awareness
Additional Criteria
Essential
- 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.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Jennifer Davies
Jennifer.Davis2@uhb.nhs.uk
01213715961
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39959.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-1099106
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
Job Description
Band 6 JD PS .pdf – 547KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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