Clinician Perfusion Manager

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cherwell District; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Chief Clinical Perfusion Scientist to lead the Perfusion Service and deliver patient-centred care. You will shape service development during growth, including expansion of the cardiac surgery programme.

Working with the Clinical Lead, you will manage workforce planning, budgets, policies and governance, while providing expert cardiopulmonary bypass care and support to multidisciplinary teams across the Trust.

Qualifications

• Lead the Perfusion Service with strategic, clinical and operational leadership.
• Deliver expert perfusion care including CPB and mechanical circulatory support.
• Lead policy development, governance, and quality improvement.
• Oversee budgets, resources, and workforce planning.
• Provide on-call clinical presence and senior specialist advice.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical and operational leadership across the Trust.
• Deliver complex perfusion procedures and advanced support therapies.
• Act as senior perfusion specialist for multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop and review clinical policies and evidence-based practice.
• Ensure safe operation and maintenance of perfusion equipment.
• Participate in 24-hour on-call rota and clinical duties.
• Lead clinical governance, audit, risk management, patient safety.
• Contribute to service planning and external meetings.
• Line manage and develop staff including recruitment and succession.
• Manage budgets and procurement per Trust policies.
• Lead research, innovation and service development projects.
• Build stakeholder relationships and ensure governance compliance.
• Investigate incidents and implement improvements.

Skills

Perfusion leadership

Cardiopulmonary bypass

Clinical governance

Workforce planning

Budget management

On-call availability

Research & innovation

Stakeholder engagement

Staff development

Quality improvement

Education

Full UK registration with College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists

Tools

Perfusion equipment

Job description

We seek an ambitious, experienced, and motivated Chief Clinical Perfusion Scientist to lead the Perfusion Service, providing expert clinical, operational, and professional leadership to deliver a high-quality, patient-centred service. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future development of the service during a period of growth, including the expansion of the cardiac surgery programme. Working with the Clinical Lead, you will lead and manage the service, ensuring effective workforce, resource, and operational planning to meet clinical, professional, and performance objectives. You will contribute to directorate planning, represent Clinical Perfusion at key meetings, and support strategic priorities. Combining expert clinical practice with leadership, you will provide specialist expertise in cardiopulmonary bypass and associated technologies, supporting cardiac surgery and other complex interventions. You will maintain a clinical presence, participate in on-call and late duty rotas, and provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams. You will lead quality improvement, workforce development, research, innovation, and clinical governance activities to promote excellence in patient care and service delivery. The successful candidate will hold full UK registration with the College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists. We are committed to supporting staff development, wellbeing, and career progression.,

• Provide strategic, clinical and operational leadership for the Clinical Perfusion Service across the Trust and referring region.
• Deliver expert clinical perfusion care, including complex cardiopulmonary bypass procedures and advanced mechanical circulatory support therapies.
• Act as the senior clinical perfusion specialist, providing expert advice and support to multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead the development and review of clinical policies, protocols and evidence-based practice.
• Ensure the safe operation, maintenance and availability of perfusion equipment and resources.
• Participate in the 24-hour on-call rota and maintain a significant clinical role within routine and emergency services.
• Lead clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, risk management and patient safety initiatives.
• Contribute to service planning and represent Clinical Perfusion at Directorate, Trust and external meetings.
• Line manage, appraise and develop staff, leading workforce planning, recruitment, training and succession planning.
• Manage departmental budgets, procurement and resource utilisation in line with Trust policies.
• Lead research, innovation and service development projects to improve patient outcomes.
• Develop effective stakeholder relationships and ensure compliance with professional, regulatory and governance standards.
• Investigate incidents and complaints, implementing improvements to enhance service quality and performance.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.