International Clinical Fellow in Transfusion - MTI

Job summary

Employer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)

Department: Clinical Directorate

Location: To be agreed (Birmingham, Bristol, or London)

Salary: Funded by home institution, equivalent to UK Specialist Training level 4: £65,048

Applications are invited for an International Clinical Training Fellow in Transfusion Medicine, starting August 2026. The post is for senior trainees near completion of transfusion medicine training in their home institution, funded by that institution. The one-year fixed-term honorary (unpaid) post provides subspecialty experience across the Patient Blood Management and Components team and the wider transfusion directorate. The fellow will work as part of a national team delivering blood and blood components across England, reporting to the Consultant Haematologist Educational Supervisor at the chosen centre. Final location (Birmingham, Bristol, or London) will be agreed at interview, subject to availability. Applicants must meet the Royal College of Physicians Medical Training Initiative eligibility criteria.

Main duties of the job

There will be a combination of daytime duty work and longer-term quality improvement and project work. Duty work will involve taking queries from within the organisation and NHS Trusts, giving clinical advice to inform decisions around individual patients and components. All clinical work will be supervised by a named consultant. You will be expected to submit at least one project as a conference abstract and/or to a peer reviewed journal during the time in post. As part of the role, you will deliver teaching to doctors, nurses, biomedical and clinical scientists. You will acquire subspecialty skills and experience in: Components, Donor Medicine, Red Cell Immunohaematology, Patient Blood Management (PBM). You will acquire further knowledge of: Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Manufacturing and Logistics, Cell, Apheresis and Gene Therapies, Haemovigilance, Research, Audit and Quality Improvement. Your supervisor will support you in pursuing an honorary contract with the regional NHS Trust to enable you acquire skills in hospital-based transfusion practice (participation in hospital transfusion team meetings etc.)

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.