Lead Specialist Biomedical Scientist

Job summary

Youll be joining the Hospital Customer Service team leading on a nationally significant project working between NHSBT and hospitals to support resilience of the nations blood supply. Against a backdrop of stock alerts we are keen to extend our partnership with hospitals to look for further improvements in ordering, stock holding and use and how NHSBT can best contribute to effective inventory management in hospital transfusion laboratories.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your transfusion and biomedical science knowledge to make a difference and help NHSBT maintain uninterrupted supply of blood components to hospitals throughout England. NHSBT is taking action throughout the supply chain from donation to issuing to hospitals. This role provides a focal point for partnership working between NHSBT and our hospital customers.

This role is for 12 months and we believe the right person will make a big difference in this time. We will provide data, local knowledge, teamwork, management and clinical support. Youll have regular contact with colleagues that provide services directly to hospitals, the Blood Stocks Management Scheme, Patient Blood Management and our clinical team. You will promote NHSBT and advocate for hospitals and their patients.

Note: This role does provide a hybrid-working option. You will be assigned a base location which could be one of NHSBT main centres/blood centres, which will be confirmed after the final interview and mutually agreed upon.

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:

• Working closely with hospital transfusion teams across England, including spending time visiting hospitals to enhance partnership working.
• Working extensively with internal teams such as the Blood Stocks Management Scheme, Patient Blood Management, Transfusion Consultants, Logistics and the Hospital Customer Service team.
• Developing and managing the project to achieve the desired outcomes with hospitals by working with and supporting NHSBT and its partners.
• Driving the project forward which will require influencing other directorates and external colleagues to meet agreed targets and objectives.
• Delivering training and education to internal and external stakeholders to improve use of systems, data and stock utilisation / management.
• 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.
• Support the key objectives of the Transfusion function.
• Working on own initiative and develop responses to complex and challenging situations.

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.