Assessment & Recovery Centre Clinical Lead - Lung

Job summary

Join our dedicated team in NHSBT organ donation and transplantation. Youll be part of a programme team at the forefront of organ transplantation projects, ultimately saving and improving lives. The establishment of a national Assessment and Recovery Centre (ARC) service will extend equitable access to life-saving products and treatments to everyone that needs them and bridge the gap between shortage of organs available and demand. You will have an innovative, problem-solving approach, with strong stakeholder management skills and experience in implementing risk management and governance processes. By being part of a passionate, enthusiastic, supportive, and high performing team, you will build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will contribute to life-saving work, where every day promises diversity and excitement managing critical programmes aimed at enhancing organ donation and transplantation services.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to establishing the Assessment and Recovery Centres (ARC) that will deliver improvements to the UKs organ utilisation program, by improving the assessment of extended criteria lungs, develop reconditioning protocols and ultimately increase the number of lung transplants annually. As Clinical Lead the successful candidate will be a member of the ARC Clinical Steering Group and will participate in relevant workstreams reporting into the ARCs Programme Board. Accordingly, the ARC Clinical Lead will be expected to contribute to the ARC implementation plan, underpinned by our focus on patient experience, environmental sustainability, innovation, collaboration, and equity of access.

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.