Event Assistant (Bank)

Job summary

Being part of a proactive marketing and events team, you will learn new skills to engage members of the public to become lifesaving blood donors. You will receive full training and support to undertake this vital role. This is a perfect opportunity for you to gain additional experience in a marketing and events role with a fantastic organisation who save and improve lives. You will find the team spirit and sense of pride after each day is hard to beat. Every day will be different, you will meet lots of people from recruiting blood donors at shopping centres to workplaces. You will gain a good understanding about blood donation and share your knowledge with the public.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work with the marketing team to register and book appointments for new blood donors at a variety of events, including shopping centres and workplaces. You will assist with Whats Your Blood Type events where you will perform blood type testing and engage with potential new donors. Your duties at the events will include:- Collecting event equipment and manually setting up suitable spaces to run the event Performing blood sampling (finger prick test) on members of the public in accordance with our procedures to produce a provisional blood group type for demonstration purposes only. Full training is provided Offering information to members of the public on donation in general and specifically in relation to their provisional blood type Providing reports to line manager on numbers of people seen and signed up as donors to continually monitor effectiveness of events Packing away all equipment and returning this to base for safe disposal of sharps and clinical waste Receiving training in basic care/first aid to enable you to respond in cases of adverse reactions Loading, unloading, assembling and dismantling equipment on a daily basis, including heavy objects of up to 13 kgs You will also be required to work variable hours and days, including evenings, weekend and bank holidays with mutual agreement, and receiving prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.