Lead Specialist Scientist

Job summary

New Year, New Role an opportunity to make a real difference to the resilient supply of blood components to hospitals.

You'll join the Hospital Customer Service team, leading a nationally significant project between NHSBT and hospitals to strengthen the resilience of the blood supply. With recent stock alerts highlighting the need for collaborative action, we are looking to extend our partnership with hospitals to improve ordering, stock holding, usage, and overall inventory management within transfusion laboratories.

This is an exciting 12-month opportunity to use your transfusion and biomedical science expertise to help NHSBT maintain an uninterrupted supply of blood components across England. NHSBT is taking action throughout the supply chain, from donation to issue, and this role will act as a key link between NHSBT and our hospital customers. You will have regular contact with colleagues who provide services directly to hospitals, as well as the Blood Stocks Management Scheme, Patient Blood Management teams, and our clinical specialists. You will promote NHSBT while advocating for hospitals and their patients, supported by data, local insight, teamwork, and clinical guidance.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for leading a project to support resilience of blood component supply to hospitals and will be working at a national, regional, trust and hospital level to influence and champion best practice. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Working extensively with internal teams such as the Blood Stocks Management Scheme, Patient Blood Management, Transfusion Consultants, Logistics and the Hospital Customer Service team

2. Developing and managing the project to achieve the desired outcomes with hospitals by working with and supporting NHSBT and its partners

3. Driving the project forward which will require influencing other directorates and external colleagues to meet agreed targets and objectives

4. Delivering training and education to internal and external stakeholders to improve use of systems, data and stock utilisation / management.

5. The remit of the role spans a wide range of NHSBT products and services including blood and blood components, stock management and patient blood management initiatives

6. Supporting the key objectives of the Transfusion function

7. Working on own initiative and develop responses to complex and challenging situations

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, 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.