Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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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

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 or

Main duties, tasks & skills required:
*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:

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification:
Qualifications:

Essential:

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

Evidence of post registration/qualification professional development

Desirable:

Recognised Teaching qualification
Health Management / Care or Leadership Degree

Experience:

Essential:

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:

Essential:

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:

Certificate of Sponsorship:

UK Professional Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.