Job summary
Provide specialist blood transfusion advice as a clinical specialist to support and
facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients /clients and relatives/carers in
collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with the local and national
targets. The post holder will work as a member of the Hospital Transfusion Team
(HTT) and in conjunction with the Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT). They will
work trust wide, utilising their extensive knowledge and skill base to provide
specialist/technical support, assessing quality of clinical service and other practice
learning environments, propose and deliver interventions for improvement. The
Transfusion Practitioner (TP) assists the Site Lead Transfusion Practitioner in
providing clinical leadership and management support, developing, and evaluating
best practice Trust Wide. The post-holder will deputise for the Transfusion
Practitioner Site Leads as required, in implementing the requirements derived from
the Department of Health circulars. They will also liaise and maintain links with
educational bodies to support practice education.
Main duties of the job
Monitor care given to patients by assisting in regularly auditing transfusion practices within the Trust which will be used to design, implement, and review protocols as appropriate. Liaise with specialist nurses, pre-admission teams, outpatients, and all other Trust Departments to ensure adequate advice/support is available for all patients. To maintain and improve detailed knowledge of own clinical specialty demonstrating direct clinical involvement in clinical issues. Be fully conversant and wholly accountable for his / her practice, act and uphold the professional standards detailed within the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives or HCPC Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics. Recognise the limits of individual competence and knowledge, undertake further training and academic qualifications as relevant to the role and service requirements. Take personal responsibility for attendance at mandatory/statutory training and updating as per Trust statutory and mandatory training requirements and inform your manager if there is any deviance from training attendance at mandated intervals Maintain a high standard of personal behaviour and ensure effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team, patients, carers, and relatives. Act with personal and professional integrity within professional, ethical, and legal frameworks and process to maintain and improve standards of care and practice.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties & Tasks - continued
Take responsibility and maintain professional records for personal and professional updating (portfolio of practice), taking an active involvement in their own professional development review and personal development plan. Ensure that their own professional competency document/portfolio containing attainment of skills and practices is regularly updated to support revalidation where this is a requirement of the role. Adhere to all Trust policies ensuring a high standard of personal and professional behaviour is always maintained whilst acting as an ambassador for the trust and a role model to others. Utilise opportunities to support ongoing professional development by undertaking delegated tasks for your line manager in his / her absence or representing them at meetings and forums. The post holder will always act as a positive role model in promoting the personal growth of self, peers, and junior colleagues. The daily workload of the post has an unpredictable variety of activities, which requires differing combinations of sitting, standing, walking, and lifting, with frequent periods of computer work. The post holder will be expected to travel off site to other hospital sites associated with the Trust to deliver teaching sessions and complete audits. The post holder will be expected to produce professional documents, statistical data, presentations etc. and should therefore have the necessary information technology skills to achieve this.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties & Tasks - continued
Take responsibility and maintain professional records for personal and professional updating (portfolio of practice), taking an active involvement in their own professional development review and personal development plan. Ensure that their own professional competency document/portfolio containing attainment of skills and practices is regularly updated to support revalidation where this is a requirement of the role. Adhere to all Trust policies ensuring a high standard of personal and professional behaviour is always maintained whilst acting as an ambassador for the trust and a role model to others. Utilise opportunities to support ongoing professional development by undertaking delegated tasks for your line manager in his / her absence or representing them at meetings and forums. The post holder will always act as a positive role model in promoting the personal growth of self, peers, and junior colleagues. The daily workload of the post has an unpredictable variety of activities, which requires differing combinations of sitting, standing, walking, and lifting, with frequent periods of computer work. The post holder will be expected to travel off site to other hospital sites associated with the Trust to deliver teaching sessions and complete audits. The post holder will be expected to produce professional documents, statistical data, presentations etc. and should therefore have the necessary information technology skills to achieve this.
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
- 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
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 compliancemanagement and Health & Safety regulations
- * Demonstrate ability, experience, passion in the following:
- o Leadership
- o Managing resources
- o Time management
- o Role modelling
- o Change management/clinical developments
- o Clinical governance NHS Policy and political awareness
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
- 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
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 compliancemanagement and Health & Safety regulations
- * Demonstrate ability, experience, passion in the following:
- o Leadership
- o Managing resources
- o Time management
- o Role modelling
- o Change management/clinical developments
- o Clinical governance NHS Policy and political awareness
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
