Job summary
University Hospitals Birmingham is one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in England, serving the populations of Birmingham and Solihull. It transfuses approximately 46,500 blood products a year across multiple disciplines.
The purpose of this essential role is to lead on the promotion of safe and appropriate transfusion practice across the Trust. You will work closely with our Blood Transfusion Laboratory Managers, Haematology and Blood Transfusion Clinical Leads as well as the clinical users involved in the transfusion pathways.
The role involves designing and delivering training and competency assessments in the clinical areas, investigating incidents relating to transfusion, performing transfusion audits, and producing policies and procedures. The post holder is responsible for overseeing transfusion training and competency; quality governance; risk management; statutory compliance of clinical transfusion.
Applications are encouraged from a NMC registered Nurse or HCPC registered Biomedical Scientist who is an enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated individual with the experience relevant to clinical transfusion practice who will lead the transfusion practitioner team across UHB.
You will need to have a natural focus on quality, patient safety, and service delivery and work within the Trusts Quality Governance systems with an excellent knowledge of current transfusion practice and understanding of wider transfusion issues affecting Trusts currently.
Main duties of the job
Identifying some key duties:
-Develop and facilitate the implementation of policies designed to improve the effectiveness of blood transfusion medicine within the trust.
-Liaison with all groups of staff and patients to promote optimal use of blood, alternatives to donor blood and best practice within the constraints of clinical needs and costliness.
-The post-holder is expected to network with colleagues within and outside the Trust to maintain knowledge relating to professional developments and research in health care. Networks include the National Blood Service network and the British Blood Transfusion Society.
-Training and updating staff in blood transfusion in conjunction with the clinical skills laboratory and the Hospital Transfusion Group. To maintain record of training on behalf of risk management.
-Investigate, report and help resolve actual and potential problems related to transfusion within the Trust.
-Investigate blood transfusion related incidents and complete the paperwork required for reporting to the Serious Hazards of Transfusion scheme.
-Collect, collate and review data related to blood use and wastage with the laboratory manager.
-Provide leadership, motivation and vision regarding the contribution of the transfusion team to patient care and facilitate liaison between the laboratory services and the rest of the Trust
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
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *State registration with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registered General Nurse.
- *MSc Biomedical Science or equivalent academic achievement.
- *Management qualification.
- *Evidence of continuing professional development and proficiency in accordance with appropriate professional guidelines.
- *Post registration specialty training in the transfusion pathway.
- *ECDL/RSA II computer skills.
- *Evidence of advanced and update training.
Experience
Essential
- *Evidence of continuing professional development and discipline specific proficiency.
- *Minimum of 3 years in a BMS 2 post in Haematology or Transfusion or minimum of 5 years post registration nursing in an acute setting with a minimum of 3 years at F grade or above.
- *Managing a team, project or section.
- *Teaching/Assessment experience.
- *Change management in a clinical setting.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Well-developed leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- *Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- *Ability to produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports.
- *Good presentational skills.
- *Effective mentoring skills.
- *Ability to work in and lead a team.
- *Manage effectively unpredictable workloads.
- *Effective logical thought processes and the ability to solve problems, plan and facilitate remedial action.
- An advanced, highly specialist knowledge of:
- *Blood transfusion and nursing organisational issues in an acute Trust
- *NHS modernisation agenda.
- *Better Blood Transfusion Agenda
- *European and National legislation governing Blood Transfusion.
- *Understanding of clinical governance and bench-marking.
- *Process accreditation systems, e.g. CNST, MHRA, & UKAS.
- *Principles and practice of management techniques.
- *Trust policies and procedures.
- Quality control, assurance and audit practices.
Desirable
- *To show how they have introduced a change to improve a service.
- *Evidence of project management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *State registration with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Registered General Nurse.
- *MSc Biomedical Science or equivalent academic achievement.
- *Management qualification.
- *Evidence of continuing professional development and proficiency in accordance with appropriate professional guidelines.
- *Post registration specialty training in the transfusion pathway.
- *ECDL/RSA II computer skills.
- *Evidence of advanced and update training.
Experience
Essential
- *Evidence of continuing professional development and discipline specific proficiency.
- *Minimum of 3 years in a BMS 2 post in Haematology or Transfusion or minimum of 5 years post registration nursing in an acute setting with a minimum of 3 years at F grade or above.
- *Managing a team, project or section.
- *Teaching/Assessment experience.
- *Change management in a clinical setting.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Well-developed leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- *Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to motivate others.
- *Ability to produce clear, accurate, written and verbal reports.
- *Good presentational skills.
- *Effective mentoring skills.
- *Ability to work in and lead a team.
- *Manage effectively unpredictable workloads.
- *Effective logical thought processes and the ability to solve problems, plan and facilitate remedial action.
- An advanced, highly specialist knowledge of:
- *Blood transfusion and nursing organisational issues in an acute Trust
- *NHS modernisation agenda.
- *Better Blood Transfusion Agenda
- *European and National legislation governing Blood Transfusion.
- *Understanding of clinical governance and bench-marking.
- *Process accreditation systems, e.g. CNST, MHRA, & UKAS.
- *Principles and practice of management techniques.
- *Trust policies and procedures.
- Quality control, assurance and audit practices.
Desirable
- *To show how they have introduced a change to improve a service.
- *Evidence of project management
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).
