Tissue Bank Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Royal Brompton Heart Valve bank supplies clinically suitable heart valves to cardiac centres at the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and nationally across the UK.

The Heart valve Bank is Licensed by Human Tissue Authority to procure, process, test, store and distribute cardiac tissue under Human Tissue Act 2004 and the Human tissue (Quality and safety for Human Application) Regulation 2007 as amended.

A rare opportunity has arisen for a Tissue Bank Assistant to join a small dynamic team to provide comprehensive office and administrative support to heart Valve Bank staff as well as basic procedures within Cleanroom following Good Manufacturing Practice.

You will be required to effectively manage and complete Heart Valve donor records by communicating with relevant healthcare staff within a variety of establishments including but not limited to hospitals within the Trust, National Health Service Blood and Transplant and GP offices to request and collate necessary documents relating to Royal Brompton Heart valve donors.

You will participate in departmental meetings and take leading role in drafting agendas and minute taking.

You will provide administrative support to office and limited practical support to laboratory technicians within Royal Brompton Heart Valve Bank.

For office duties you will be working independently to organise your own workload within the constraints of defined deadlines and changing priorities.

You will be able to lift and carry items up to a weight of 10Kg with and without the use of mechanical aids.

Within laboratories you will participate in primary stages of processing within the cleanrooms after a period of training. You will participate in various cleaning, validation and audit schedules and rotas within the department.

Royal Brompton Heart Valve is the first homograft department in the worldwith excellent reputation for providing reliable and efficient supply of highly demanded cardiac tissue to paediatric and adult patients within the UK.

The department comprises of a small professional team dedicated to providing clinically suitable cardiovascular tissue for surgery to all paediatric and adult cardiac centres within the UK.

Main responsibility will be to communicate with relevant healthcare staff to request and collate necessary documents relating to medical and social history of donors of heart valves.