Transfusion Practitioner - Band 7

Job summary

Note: This vacancy will have a start date after 01/07/2025

Site: PAN Trust - Lincoln (Base)

1 x 37.5 hour post

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transfusion Practitioner to join our driven and industrious team in the Blood Transfusion Department. Our services are based across four hospital sites, the post holder will be required to cover Lincoln County Hospital (base) and County Louth Hospital.

The post holder will play a leading role in the development and delivery of multi-professional educational programmes, and competency assessments, covering all aspects of blood transfusion, including sessions to clinical staff, all grades of medical staff, and the development of core learning updates.

Applications are welcomed from professionals with a keen interest in the speciality from both registered nurses (NMC pin) and HCPC registered biomedical scientists with relevant experience in an acute hospital setting. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, good understanding of transfusion practices and governance procedures. The candidate will be leading in incident management actions on a regular basis.

This role will contribute towards an environment and culture that supports and encourages personal and professional development whilst supporting the improvements within the service.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this job is to effect changes in practice to ensure compliance with the Health Service Circular 2007/001 'Better Blood Transfusion - Safe and Appropriate Use of Blood', and any transfusion related directives, laws, and recommendations, including the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005 as well as any relevant future directives / legislation / recommendations. To do this will mean liaison with all grades and levels of staff within the Trust as well as external agencies and providers.

The post holder will promote Patient Blood Management (PBM), to optimise the care of patients who might need a blood transfusion, whilst avoiding inappropriate use ofblood components, and promote alternatives to transfusion. To raise awareness of, and improve, the safety issues surrounding transfusion. This will be achieved by Education, Clinical Audit and by using Risk Management Strategies in a proactive way.

To lead on the introduction of new developments within the blood transfusion service, which affect ULTH staff.

The post holder will lead on the auditing of transfusion protocols and procedures to help disseminate best practice.

There are two posts, one based in the North and one based in the South of the County. The two posts holders will work closely together to provide a pan Trust service whilst taking into account differing individual site needs. Each post holder will provide cover for the opposite area when required and travel to appropriate sites as needed

About us

Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).