Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Blood Bank - Laboratory Medicine
Job summary
Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner
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
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
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:
- oLeadership
- oManaging resources
- oTime management
- oRole modelling
- oChange management/clinical developments
- oClinical governance
- 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.
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 Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm
- Company
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom B15 2TH
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom B15 2TH
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year
- Posted