Blood Health Team Operational Manager

NHS; Talbot Green; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to drive best practices in blood management across Wales. This role emphasizes patient blood management principles and involves collaboration with various health boards and stakeholders. The successful candidate will lead a team dedicated to improving blood health initiatives and ensuring compliance with national standards. Join a team that values integrity, innovation, and a proactive approach to healthcare, making a significant impact on patient outcomes and service delivery. If you are passionate about healthcare and leadership, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Healthcare Scientist with current registration.
• Experience in leading teams and managing blood supply chains.
• Knowledge of change management and incident reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to embed patient blood management principles.
• Provide leadership on Wales-wide programmes and ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for blood health.

Skills

Team Leadership

Patient Blood Management

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Communication Skills

Welsh Language

Education

Registered Nurse / Midwife

Management Qualification

Healthcare Scientist

Tools

NHS Electronic Systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

This role will support delivery of the NHS Wales Blood Health Plan (BHP) under the remit of the Blood Health National Oversight Group (BHNOG) and in collaboration with the Welsh Blood Service (WBS) and Hospital /Health Board (HB) Transfusion Teams across Wales. The role will provide a system leadership role by embedding patient blood management (PBM) principles into transfusion practice and be responsible for leading a team to drive best practice programmes and initiatives. This role provides advice to Health boards on matters relating to the prevention and treatment of anaemia and haemostatic disorders including the safe, effective and appropriate use of blood components.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Support the Head of the National Blood Heath Team (BHT) in providing system leadership to embed PBM principles into transfusion practice and be responsible for leading a team to drive best practice programmes and initiatives. This will involve benchmarking against national and international services and horizon scanning to identify potential development opportunities while focusing on patient outcomes, reducing unwarranted variation in clinical practice and allocating resources across the system to maximise the value.

Provide leadership on Wales wide programmes to ensure they are implemented in line with national and international regulatory requirements.

Support the leadership and management of the BHT at the WBS by contributing to service strategies and operational plans to support service developments in conjunction with the Head of the BHT and other Heads of Departments.

Undertake work with internal and external stakeholders providing and receiving highly complex information in a changing, and competitive environment. This requires a high degree of tact and diplomacy to build and maintain collaborative and productive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders identifying development opportunities to improve blood health initiatives aligned with the NHS BHP.

About us

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in ourcutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac

Please direct any enquiries to Dr. Indu Thakur:

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered Nurse / Midwife with current NMC registration or Healthcare Scientist with HCPC registration
• Evidence of CPD/Revalidation
• Management Qualification
• HSST or working towards

Experience

• Experience of leading/ managing a team
• Experience of managing the blood supply chain in liaison with key stakeholders
• Experience of developing & implementing national reports / strategic plans
• Experience of service and quality improvement initiatives
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of presenting posters/ scientific papers
• Experience of working autonomously and using own initiative
• Experience of engaging and developing partnerships with a range of national and international organisations
• Experience as a member of a national/international professional body/advisory committee
• Experience of project management and delivery at a national level
• Experience of hospital-based blood transfusion
• Experience of using NHS electronic systems e.g. Oracle, TRAC etc.
• Knowledge of computer packages e.g. Microsoft office excel/word
• Knowledge and understanding of change management, incident reporting & CAPA

Skills and Attributes

• Demonstrates ability to work with others - building and maintaining relationships, working in teams and networks
• Extensive understanding of customer service
• Excellent analytical, appraisal and judgemental skills
• Ability to secure effective and positive working relationships with key stakeholders
• Effective planning and organisational skills
• Able to deal with complex, sensitive information and communicate it effectively in situations to audiences both internal and external
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, including facilitating, influencing and negotiating
• Ability to undertake strategic planning
• Able to problem solve in a pressurised environment
• Ability to influence and lead on service development, theory and practice to improve service and care
• Ability to speak Welsh

Other

• High level of integrity
• Proactive approach to tasks
• Respectful of other people's opinions and ideas
• Positive and professional attitude to duties
• Be approachable and helpful
• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external colleagues
• Able to work in an organised manner managing conflicting demands on their time
• Able to be self-motivated and lead others
• Ability to work in an unpredictable pattern with regular interruptions from unexpected or emergency requests
• Flexibility to occasionally work outside of routine hours
• Ability to travel between sites and across a wide geographical area
• Awareness of Velindre NHS Trust Values

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.