Clinical Fellow in Transfusion Medicine

The Methodist Church in Britain; United Kingdom; À distance; GBP 42 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NHS Blood and Transplant invites applications for a one-year fixed-term fellowship in the Patient Blood Management team, with sessions across the transfusion directorate. The role blends daytime duty and clinical/advisory work with quality improvement projects and teaching.

The post is suited to haematology trainees at ST5 or above, or locally employed doctors seeking subspecialty experience in transfusion medicine, with base arrangements to be confirmed at interview.

Qualifications

• Completed Essential Transfusion Medicine course.
• FRCPath Parts 1 and 2 in clinical haematology; Part 1 only considered.
• GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Experience at ST5 level or equivalent in clinical haematology.

Responsabilités

• Take queries within the NHS and Trusts.
• Give clinical advice to inform decisions on patients and components.
• Undertake daytime duty work under supervision of a named consultant.
• Deliver quality improvement and project work.
• Teach doctors, nurses, biomedical scientists and clinical scientists.
• Submit at least one project as conference abstract or peer‑reviewed paper.
• Pursue an honorary Trust contract for hospital‑based transfusion practice.

Connaissances

Clinical haematology training

Quality improvement

Teaching

Liaison with clinicians

Formation

Essential Transfusion Medicine course

FRCPath Part 1 & 2 in clinical haematology

Description du poste

This one-year fixed-term fellowship with NHS Blood and Transplant sits in the Patient Blood Management team, with sessions across the transfusion directorate. The work combines daytime duty, advising clinicians on patients and components, with quality improvement projects and teaching. It suits haematology trainees at ST5 or above, or locally employed doctors, who want subspecialty experience in transfusion medicine, with the base confirmed at interview.

What the job involves

• Take queries from within the organisation and NHS Trusts
• Give clinical advice to inform decisions on individual patients and components
• Undertake daytime duty work under a named consultant's supervision
• Work under the accountability of the Consultant Haematologist Educational Supervisor
• Deliver quality improvement and longer-term project work
• Submit at least one project as a conference abstract and/or peer-reviewed journal paper
• Teach doctors, nurses, biomedical scientists and clinical scientists
• Acquire subspecialty skills in components, donor medicine, red cell immunohaematology and patient blood management
• Gain further knowledge of histocompatibility and immunogenetics, manufacturing and logistics, cell, apheresis and gene therapies, haemovigilance, research, audit and quality improvement
• Pursue an honorary Trust contract for hospital-based transfusion practice

What’s required

Qualifications

• Completed Essential Transfusion Medicine course
• Completed FRCPath parts 1 and 2 in clinical haematology; candidates with part 1 only will be considered

Registration & licences

• GMC registration with a licence to practise

Experience

• Currently working or previously worked at ST5 or equivalent in clinical haematology
• Evidence of good progress in further clinical training
• Knowledge and skills appropriate to training level
• Understanding of and commitment to a career in transfusion medicine
• Experience of the NHS Patient Blood Management model and transfusion regulations

Other

• Potential to become a leader in chosen field

What’s offered

• Support to pursue an honorary contract with the Trust