Oxford Locum Consultant in Transfusion Medicine

Job summary

Applications are invited for this exciting opportunity with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) to provide clinical leadership across all aspects of Transfusion Medicine, including Patient Blood Management (PBM), Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI), and blood components. The successful candidate will offer expert PBM advice, support appropriate clinical use of blood and plasma products, and work collaboratively with consultants in transfusion medicine to advise NHSBTs Blood Supply Directorate, Regional Transfusion Committees, and wider clinical teams. The role also supports Quality Assurance in transfusion services and contributes to the development of national clinical policy, transfusion guidelines, and recommendations. The post includes participation in daytime and out-of-hours (telephone) on-call rotas for transfusion medicine, RCI, and components. At Oxford Hospitals, duties will be primarily based at the Iron Deficiency Management Service (IDMS), Bicester Community Hospital, with flexibility to work across Trust sites. Responsibilities include leading PBM initiatives, supporting electronic transfusion decision tools in EPR, contributing to clinical governance, audits, and developing transfusion guidelines. NHSBT is the national provider of blood, organs, tissues, stem cells, and diagnostics, and has an active R&D programme in partnership with leading academic centres.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide patient blood management expertise and give advice on appropriate blood and plasma products for clinical practice. They will work with consultants in transfusion medicine in the provision of advice to NHSBTs Blood Supply directorate, and also regionally and nationally to support the Regional Transfusion Committees and NHSBTs other clinical teams, as part of a wider consultant team. This will include supporting the Quality Assurance part of NHSBTs transfusion work. They will actively contribute to the development of national clinical policy in respect to transfusion guidelines and recommendations and will also support the red cell immunology laboratories and components teams as required. They will participate in daytime and out-of-hours on call rotas (by telephone) for transfusion medicine (patient-facing on call rota for NHSBT), and for RCI or Components.

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.