Information Officer - Bristol, United Kingdom - NHS Blood and Transplant

NHS Blood and Transplant

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Information Officer

Job Summary

The Information Services team play an important role in making transplants happen, the team are responsible for managing and maintaining the transplant waiting lists for every organ throughout the UK.

In addition to this, Information Services ensure that every single piece of information about an organ donation is recorded.

Information Services also plays a key role in the running of UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme (UKLKSS) which is now one of the most successful schemes in Europe.

We ensure that patient safety is at the forefront by providing administrative and logístical support to the transplant community whilst fulfilling our statuary obligations.

A large part of the role is about developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with clinical colleagues across the UK to ensure that patients are registered correctly, and that the required information has been received.

Main duties of the job
Information is at the heart of our business.

Having the right information in the right hands at the right time enables transplants to happen and saves and improves lives.

Providing the wrong information, or not having the information available when it is needed, can have catastrophic consequences.

You will be responsible for:

Supporting transplant centre staff to return information in a timely manner.
Using reports to identify transplant centres that are not meeting their targets for information returns and collaborating with those centres to come up with practicable solutions to improve performance.
Ensuring that high volumes of information are traced, gathered, validated for accuracy, processed and made available to the UK Transplant Registry.
The post is responsible for ensuring that recipients are safely registered for transplant on the UK Transplant Registry.
Suggesting changes to procedures and practice to remove waste and improve the quality and timeliness of the information returned.

About You

Qualifications and Training

GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths, equivalent qualification or evidence of equivalent literacy and numeracy skills.
IT certificate, for example European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) part I & II or ITQ2, or CLAIT II, or RSA III text or word processing or demonstrable workplace experience.
Demonstrates commitment to own continuous learning and development.

Experience and Knowledge

Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), or equivalent systems.

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we're incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be.

We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families.

We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It's an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year.

We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 10th December 2023.