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The post holder will be a key member of the Hospital Transfusion Committee (HTC) and Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT) working closely with the Consultant Haematologists, the Transfusion Laboratory and other members of the HTT and the HTC.

The post holder will have a major remit for training and competency assessment including planning, facilitating, and monitoring compliance across clinical staff groups.

To provide structure and organisation of Research and Development activity within the Pathology CSU. 

The post holder will participate in and facilitate meetings related to R&D and work to monitor and improve standards of care via audit, evidence-based practice and research. 

The post holder will provide accurate and up to date information to the Pathology Management Team regarding R&D activities.

Communication and relationship skills 

• To ensure that communication is maintained between the laboratory and the hospital network of wards and departments.
• Lead on improvements in organisational effectiveness in relation to blood transfusion by facilitating communication and problem solving between the relevant staff groups.

Analytical skills 

• Plan better blood transfusion strategy implementation, education in wastage and alternatives to blood.
• Produce relevant reports, which are reported to senior hospital management, and make recommendations to improve transfusion services and the use of blood, being able to present them as required.

Planning and organisation skills

• Lead on the planning, organisation and development of training packages for all medical, nursing and healthcare workers involved with transfusion practices, to facilitate changes in practice and promote safe, effective and appropriate use of blood, blood components and blood products and to ensure National guidelines are implemented and promote NBTC competencies for transfusion.
• To develop, plan, organise and deliver blood transfusion related, clinical training, and education programmes in line with Trust training and development department, to be delivered as part of in person clinical simulation training and ESR training platform.

Responsibility – patient/client care

• Be a proactive member of both the Hospital Transfusion Committee and Hospital Transfusion Team maintaining national links with relevant professional bodies e.g. BBTS, NHSBT, SHOT and where appropriate, represent the Trust on transfusion related matters on these bodies and on the Regional Transfusion Committee.
• To act as a specialist resource supporting staff in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care throughout the blood transfusion process.

Responsibility for policy and service development

• To demonstrate expert knowledge, skills and innovative practice within the Blood transfusion specialist area, to develop the service.
• To promote and develop the use of evidence-based practice to improve the outcomes of blood transfusions in patient care and encourage clinical staff of all grades to change outdated practices.

Please refer to Job Description for further details

We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.

MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.  

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.  Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.   This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Upon commencing  employment  with  the  Trust,  all  employees  (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are  subject  to  a probationary period lasting  a  period  of  six  months  with  an  option  to extend  for  a  further  six  months  to  a total of  12 months.