Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Laboratory medicine
Requirements
Requires a degree and professional registration (HCPC) as a nurse, midwife, biomedical scientist, or ODP. Candidates must have relevant postgraduate experience in specialist transfusion areas and a valid driver's license for travel between sites.
Job Description
Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner -- cross site working (30 hours)
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
- Good standard of general education including English language and mathematics, A levels or equivalent
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Registered with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area
- Registered Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Essential
- Relevant postgraduate experience in specialist areas relevant to the post
- Experience of effective staff management and leadership
- Experience of management of adults within short stay area of practice
- Experience of Occupational Therapy students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels
- Experience of leading audit
- Experience of training staff groups at all levels
- Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multi-disciplinary teams and across agencies
- Experience of conducting or being involved in audit, implementing outcome measures and/or research in the specialist area
Essential
- Car driver. Able to meet the travel requirements of the position.
- Flexible to work between sites
- Participation in 7 day working
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
Lance Green
lance.green@uhb.nhs.uk
01214241183
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
304-1081669
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
Job Description
Band 6 JD PS.pdf – 538KB 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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