Job summary
As a Specialist Nurse in Research for Organ Donation, you will play a key role in progressing NHS Blood and Transplants strategy and supporting safe, high quality donation services across the UK. Youll work alongside the Innovation and Research Lead to deliver research programmes, guide new transplant initiatives, and translate evidence into meaningful service improvements. This is an influential role where your expert clinical insight will shape national policy, support operational change, and strengthen the donor pathway. Youll also act as an advisor to senior forums and project groups, ensuring research outcomes are implemented safely and effectively. With national visibility across the donation service, youll collaborate with clinicians, researchers and stakeholders to drive innovation that ultimately helps save and improve more lives.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Nurse Research you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of discrete and specific business initiatives supporting the safe and efficient delivery of the Organ Donation Service across the UK. Responsibilities include:
- Supporting clinical research studies and new transplant initiatives, offering clinical and operational support during the research programme.
- Providing highly specialised advice acting as an advisory specialist expert to UK national project and other Advisory Groups.
- Contributing to the development of strategic plans in partnership with the Innovation and Research Lead and fellow senior management team members.
- Working with the OTDT Clinical Team to support the delivery of the Organ Donation and Transplantation 2030: Meeting the Need Strategy and evaluating the effectiveness of actions against the objectives of the strategy.
- Acting as the operational link for the National Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) Research initiative in conjunction with Oxford University, and supporting implementation of any licensing updates and changes as required.
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To learn more, please see our recruitment profile, which provides a summary of the job description and person specification. This can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To learn more, please see our recruitment profile, which provides a summary of the job description and person specification. This can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN/RN on part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Professional Register.
- Relevant post graduate degree or equivalent qualification in a health or related field/job related experience to post graduate degree level.
- Post graduate experience in the field of critical care or equivalent.
- Educated to masters Level in a subject relevant to service area (for example Critical Care) OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD) to maintain up to date knowledge and ongoing competence in the acute hospital setting and to develop highly specialist knowledge of organ donation.
- Requirement for NMC professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role.
Experience
Essential
- Ability to produce/interpret business and clinical initiatives/Policy/legislation through to development of clear strategies leading to implementation and Organ Donation Service Development and improvement.
- Demonstrable experience of analytical skills to lead and support the implementation of new and changing initiatives.
- Experience of undertaking investigations to support clinical or other incidents/issues.
- Awareness of current professional issues and developments within organ donation, nursing and the NHS.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of organ donation.
- Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN/RN on part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Professional Register.
- Relevant post graduate degree or equivalent qualification in a health or related field/job related experience to post graduate degree level.
- Post graduate experience in the field of critical care or equivalent.
- Educated to masters Level in a subject relevant to service area (for example Critical Care) OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrate commitment to own Continued Professional Development (CPD) to maintain up to date knowledge and ongoing competence in the acute hospital setting and to develop highly specialist knowledge of organ donation.
- Requirement for NMC professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role.
Experience
Essential
- Ability to produce/interpret business and clinical initiatives/Policy/legislation through to development of clear strategies leading to implementation and Organ Donation Service Development and improvement.
- Demonstrable experience of analytical skills to lead and support the implementation of new and changing initiatives.
- Experience of undertaking investigations to support clinical or other incidents/issues.
- Awareness of current professional issues and developments within organ donation, nursing and the NHS.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of organ donation.
- Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
