Specialist Nurse Organ Donation

Job summary

Our team oversees organ and tissue donation to maximise donation opportunities to save as many lives as possible through transplantation. We ensure we do our amazing donors justice and give a lifeline to thousands of people every year. We provide support and guidance to patients and families to ensure we deliver a world-class service.

Main duties of the job

You will play a key role in saving and improving lives through being an ambassador for our services and be a central point for medical teams to help deliver and facilitate a successful organ and tissue donation process. You will have the opportunity to help patients and families and unite team to deliver life-saving services. Your responsibilities will include: Using your clinical skills and experience to ensure the safety of our donors and recipients. Coordinating the theatre process to ensure a safe and effective retrieval of organs and tissues. Responding to referring hospitals to provide advice, information and support. Undertaking patient assessment and screening to identify potential donors. Communicating with hospital colleagues to facilitate the organ donation conversation with families. Advising on interventions in the appropriate clinical management of the potential donor. Developing key relationships with hospital colleagues to ensure that no opportunity for donation is missed. Acting as an Ambassador to promote organ donation.

About us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, were 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. Its 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. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever