Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham seeks a Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner to provide specialist blood transfusion advice and clinical support. The role involves auditing transfusion practices, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring compliance with healthcare standards. The ideal candidate will have a relevant nursing or healthcare professional registration, alongside experience in transfusion practices and clinical governance.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive working environment

Qualifications

• Current NMC or HCPC registration relevant to nursing/science roles.
• Evidence of professional development post registration.
• Recognised teaching qualification or evidence of teaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and audit transfusion practices within the Trust.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams to ensure adequate support.
• Assist in clinical leadership and management support.

Skills

Clinical governance knowledge

Time management

Transfusion practice understanding

Auditing

Team leadership

Education

BSc in relevant subject or equivalent experience

Current NMC registration

HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner

The closing date is 24 November 2025

Provide specialist blood transfusion advice as a clinical specialist to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers in collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with the local and national targets. The post holder will work as a member of the Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT) and in conjunction with the Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT). They will work trust wide, utilising their extensive knowledge and skill base to provide specialist/technical support, assessing quality of clinical service and other practice learning environments, propose and deliver interventions for improvement. The Transfusion Practitioner (TP) assists the Site Lead Transfusion Practitioner in providing clinical leadership and management support, developing, and evaluating best practice Trust Wide. The post-holder will deputise for the Transfusion Practitioner Site Leads as required, in implementing the requirements derived from the Department of Health circulars. They will also liaise and maintain links with educational bodies to support practice education.

Main duties of the job

Monitor care given to patients by assisting in regularly auditing transfusion practices within the Trust which will be used to design, implement, and review protocols as appropriate. Liaise with specialist nurses, pre‑admission teams, outpatients, and all other Trust Departments to ensure adequate advice/support is available for all patients. To maintain and improve detailed knowledge of own clinical specialty demonstrating direct clinical involvement in clinical issues. Be fully conversant and wholly accountable for his / her practice, act and uphold the professional standards detailed within the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives or HCPC Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics. Recognise the limits of individual competence and knowledge, undertake further training and academic qualifications as relevant to the role and service requirements. Take personal responsibility for attendance at mandatory/statutory training and updating as per Trust statutory and mandatory training requirements and inform your manager if there is any deviance from training attendance at mandated intervals. Maintain a high standard of personal behaviour and ensure effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team, patients, carers, and relatives. Act with personal and professional integrity within professional, ethical, and legal frameworks and process to maintain and improve standards of care and practice.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties & Tasks - continued

Take responsibility and maintain professional records for personal and professional updating (portfolio of practice), taking an active involvement in their own professional development review and personal development plan. Ensure that their own professional competency document/portfolio containing attainment of skills and practices is regularly updated to support revalidation where this is a requirement of the role. Adhere to all Trust policies ensuring a high standard of personal and professional behaviour is always maintained whilst acting as an ambassador for the trust and a role model to others. Utilise opportunities to support ongoing professional development by undertaking delegated tasks for your line manager in his / her absence or representing them at meetings and forums. The post holder will always act as a positive role model in promoting the personal growth of self, peers, and junior colleagues. The daily workload of the post has an unpredictable variety of activities, which requires differing combinations of sitting, standing, walking, and lifting, with frequent periods of computer work. The post holder will be expected to travel off site to other hospital sites associated with the Trust to deliver teaching sessions and complete audits. The post holder will be expected to produce professional documents, statistical data, presentations etc. and should therefore have the necessary information technology skills to achieve this.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nurse/MW: Current NMC registration
• BMS: HCPC registration as a Biomedical Scientist with a specialist portfolio in relevant area or equivalent experience
• ODP: HCPC registration as an Operating department practitioner
• All: BSc in relevant subject or equivalent experience in a relevant area and evidence of study at level 5
• * Evidence of post registration/qualification professional development
• * Recognised Teaching qualification
• * Health Management / Care or Leadership Degree

Experience

• * Recent experience of working in an acute health care provider
• * Broad experience of transfusion in a clinical or laboratory setting
• * Audit and quality assurance experience
• * Experienced team member working in a multidisciplinary environment with established supervisory/team or shift leadership skills.
• * Experience in learning from incidents/complaints and supporting changes in practice.
• * Ability to demonstrate an understanding of blood/laboratory management systems.
• * Ability to interpret blood results/diagnostic laboratory results.
• * Knowledge of UK blood transfusion practice, laws and guidelines
• * Knowledge of Clinical Governance, audit, risk and compliancemanagement and Health & Safety regulations
• * Demonstrate ability, experience, passion in the following:
• o Managing resources
• o Time management
• o Clinical governance NHS Policy and political awareness

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.

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