Development Lead (IT) - Transfusion

NHS Blood and Transplant; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a professional to lead change programs within their Transfusion 2024 initiative. This role requires significant experience in project management and data handling, specifically within hospital laboratory settings. Responsibilities include collaborating across multiple teams to implement best practices in transfusion medicine. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in stakeholder engagement and be proficient with Hospital LIMS and Microsoft Office. This position offers hybrid working options and requires some travel across England.

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent relevant professional qualification or experience.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
• Experience in data management and analysis in healthcare environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of national digital databases to enhance patient care.
• Motivate stakeholders to participate in change programs.
• Deliver specialist training and workshops.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Data management

Communication

Education

Masters level or equivalent professional qualification

Tools

Hospital Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint)

Job description

Join NHS Blood and Transplants (NHSBT) Transfusion 2024 (T2024) programme, a pioneering initiative aimed at transforming clinical and laboratory transfusion practice across the NHS. Launched in November 2020, T2024 sets the national priorities for safe, evidence-based patient care in transfusion medicine and drives innovation across multiple clinical specialties.

This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead change programmes that span multiple directorates, collaborating with NHS partners, regulatory and training bodies, and external suppliers. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care, apply evidence-based approaches, and implement best practice transfusion strategies recognised internationally.

The role is ideal for a professional who thrives in complex environments, enjoys stakeholder engagement, and is motivated to deliver impactful projects that improve outcomes for patients across the NHS.

Note: This is a national role, requiring travel across England based on business needs. The role offers a hybrid working option. You will be assigned a base location, which could be one of the NHSBT main centres or blood centres. The exact location will be confirmed after the final interview and mutually agreed upon with the line manager during the verbal offer stage.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for supporting the development objectives detailed in NHSBTs Transfusion 2024 programme. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Leading work with internal and external stakeholders to drive forward the development of tools to extract data and enable the build up of national digital databases that deliver efficiencies, enhance patient care and improve customer satisfaction.

2. Leading, motivating, and influencing stakeholders to actively participate in change programmes and projects, encouraging team building at all levels.

3. Leading development and delivery of pilots and projects to improve hospital transfusion practice, including standardisation, new technology, service development and benefits realisation, with supporting documentation (service specs, SOPs, quality plans)

4. Leading research, audit, benchmarking and interpretation of findings to inform change proposals and wider roll-out

5. Developing project plans, mapping interdependencies, resources, risks and assumptions, and producing monthly progress reports

6. Ensuring effective transition of projects into business-as-usual environment

7. Matrix-managing diverse stakeholders, motivating teams and supporting change

8. Delivering specialist training and workshops

9. Providing cover for the Programme Director when required

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

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll 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.Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent relevant professional qualification or experience
• Be competent in the use of PC and mainframe computer-based packages
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)

Experience

• Substantial experience working with hospital Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), including managing and producing complex data sets and associated data extraction tools or experience as a senior Biomedical Scientist in a blood transfusion laboratory
• Understand transfusion issues within hospitals and the challenges facing the transfusion environment
• Experienced in managing projects and delivering change
• Experience of producing clinical and/or scientific material and ability to present it verbally and in writing
• Experience of working with information technology including expert knowledge of hospital LIMS, and using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint)