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.
You will be required to participate in an on-call, out-of-hours rota, which may include evening, weekend, or public holiday work. Additionally, you may need to travel and work outside your designated region, requiring time away from base. This may involve irregular working hours and occasional overnight stays, which will be arranged with 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration; RN1 Adult Nurse level 1, RNA Adult Nurse level 1, RN8 Childrens Nurse level 1 or RNC Childrens Nurse level 1 (which must be maintained)
- First degree or equivalent qualification in allied health or related field /job related experience equivalent to degree level knowledge.
- Post graduate level qualification in relevant healthcare environment for example critical care
- Requirement for NMC professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role).
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Possession of a valid driving licence, allowing you to drive the UK (desirable for London based teams only)
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a clinical setting and demonstration of effective leadership qualities and ability may be supported with leadership/managerial experience.
- Post registration clinical experience to families of patients who are critically ill, via nursing in critical care, ICU or emergency department.
- Have experience of a specialist healthcare environment working with families of those who have suffered a bereavement
- Have experience in an acute hospital setting or end of life care
- Experience of clinical audit and data collection
- Demonstrate experience of using Microsoft Office packages and iOS to prepare documents, deliver presentations and communicate
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration; RN1 Adult Nurse level 1, RNA Adult Nurse level 1, RN8 Childrens Nurse level 1 or RNC Childrens Nurse level 1 (which must be maintained)
- First degree or equivalent qualification in allied health or related field /job related experience equivalent to degree level knowledge.
- Post graduate level qualification in relevant healthcare environment for example critical care
- Requirement for NMC professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role).
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Possession of a valid driving licence, allowing you to drive the UK (desirable for London based teams only)
Experience
Essential
- Experience in a clinical setting and demonstration of effective leadership qualities and ability may be supported with leadership/managerial experience.
- Post registration clinical experience to families of patients who are critically ill, via nursing in critical care, ICU or emergency department.
- Have experience of a specialist healthcare environment working with families of those who have suffered a bereavement
- Have experience in an acute hospital setting or end of life care
- Experience of clinical audit and data collection
- Demonstrate experience of using Microsoft Office packages and iOS to prepare documents, deliver presentations and communicate
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.
