Clinical Support Nurse

NHS Blood and Transplant; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Liverpool is looking for a clinical expert to manage donor files for tissue suitability. You will support clinical programs and ensure timely decisions on live and deceased donor files. Ideal candidates will possess strong clinical expertise, empathy, and excellent communication skills. This role requires flexibility in working hours and travel as needed, contributing to saving lives through effective tissue donation management.

Qualifications

• Recognised expert for the clinical sign-off of live and deceased donor files.
• Ability to make clinical decisions regarding the suitability of donated tissue.
• Willingness to travel and work irregular hours.

Responsibilities

• Clinically supporting the Autologous and Allogeneic serum eye drops programme.
• Managing authorisation of deceased donor files including time-sensitive cases.
• Making accountability for decisions on tissue suitability for transplantation.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Empathy

Communication skills

Job description

Decisions about donor files and the suitability of donated tissue are among the most important that are made here at NHS Blood & Transplant. Because those calls save lives. And sometimes there's a ticking clock. Getting the decisions right takes a clinical expert with specialist knowledge, great empathy, and superb communication skills. That's where you come in. As our recognised expert for the clinical sign‑off of live and deceased donor files, you'll make vital decisions about the suitability of donated tissue. You will be responsible and recognised as the clinical expert for the clinical sign off of live and deceased donor files. Your duties will include:

• Clinically supporting the Autologous and Allogeneic serum eye drops programme.
• Clinically supporting the live surgical bone programme as required with regards to authorising files for clinical suitability.
• Responsibility for the timely and effective management of authorising deceased donor files which includes time restricted ocular files.
• Accountability for clinical decision making regarding the suitability of donated tissue for transplantation and research.

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.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll 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.