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Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Laboratory medicineUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust • Birmingham, United Kingdom
Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Laboratory medicine

Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Laboratory medicine

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust • Birmingham, United Kingdom
13 days ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description
Job summary
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 of the job
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.

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

Desirable
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists

Experience
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

Desirable
  • Experience of conducting or being involved in audit, implementing outcome measures and/or research in the specialist area

Additional Criteria
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.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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