Organ Lead CLU - Lung

Job summary

The Lung Lead CLU will provide clinical leadership for the kidney transplant community, championing and promoting the values of organ utilisation and delivering the Lung Offer Review Scheme.

You will be expected to establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders across the Organ Utilisation community, being an advocate and voice of challenge. You will seek to understand and influence the relationships between organ donation and organ acceptance, liaising with colleagues in Organ Donation, as well as National Organ Retrieval Service NORS and transplant collaboratives, identifying opportunities for collaboration. You will be a key member of the Organ Utilisation Development Team (OUDT).

Role requirements include Identifying and prioritising projects, with the ability to optimise utilisation potential by minimising missed transplant opportunities. Identifying barriers to increased organ utilisation, both within lung transplantation and more widely, and the benefits of projects already undertaken will inform further interventions. You will work with Local CLUs to increase Organ Utilisation, and you will be required to provide support and guidance to them as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• Support and develop regular community meetings with local CLUs.
• Attendance at NHSBT meetings for Organ Lead CLUs.
• Development of action plans for your organ specialty.
• Submission of final report to NHSBT Associate Medical Director for Organ Utilisation (evaluation of steps taken and priorities for longer term change).
• Deliver Offer Review Scheme.
• Additional activities include providing triage and assure correspondence in respect of role and utilisation issues as required.

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.