Portering Team Leader

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen on our local Transfusion Unit- Nunton. The successful applicant will be responsible for assessing patients and delivering a range or treatments and procedures.

The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly trained team, delivering a range of transfusions and infusions to a wide group of patients.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for a group of patients without direct supervision. After a period of organisational and departmental induction you will be expected to work autonomously.

You will be required to administer a variety of infusions and transfusions including :

• Blood and platelets
• Iron
• Biologics
• Antibiotics
• Zoledronic Acid
• Pamidronate
• Factor 8
• Immunoblots.

The successful applicant will also be responsible for a variety of other clinical skills including bloods, venesection and Picc Line Care.

You will undertake and document a comprehensive assessment of your patients and will be responsible for checking patients bloods prior to procedures, checking prescriptions and ensuring check list are completed and that patients are safe to have their treatments.

You will be required to formulate and document a plan of nursing care where possible in partnership with patients, clients and their families within a framework of informed consent.

This role will require the Registered Nurse to be competent in Oral and IV medication. It is also desired that the successful applicant will be competent in venipuncture, cannulation, blood transfusion competencies and picc line care. Training can be delivered for clinical skills if required. More important is that the successful applicant will be enthusiastic, hard working and a desire to work with patients to deliver a high standard of care.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as : Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find the attached job description and main responsibilities for your kind perusal. Also, please go through the person specification for this job.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to : -