Organ Allocation Coordinator

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Filton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in the UK seeks a dedicated individual to coordinate the matching and allocation of human organs for transplantation. The successful candidate will engage with various medical professionals, ensure timely transportation of organs, and support both urgent patient registrations and research placements. Join a team that values autonomy and teamwork, dedicated to saving lives through organ donation.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with medical and administrative staff nationally and internationally.
• Record organ offering information and arrange organ transportation.
• Liaise with transplant centers regarding urgent patients and transplant outcomes.
• Coordinate with research studies about organ placements for research.
• Provide logistical support for organ transportation and retrieval teams.
• Act as the emergency contact during out-of-office hours for transplantation.

Job description

Overview

Hub Operations provide information efficiently and effectively to those in the wider donation and transplant community to make transplants happen, ensure patient safety and to help fulfil our statutory obligations. This includes facilitating up to 1,600 per year, conduct over 39,000 offers and ensuring that 4500 potential transplant recipients receive an offer of a live saving or improving transplant. In this role you will co-ordinate the matching and allocation of human organs for transplantation, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year to the UK, Republic of Ireland and European Organ Exchange Organisations.

Responsibilities

• Communicating with consultants, medical, scientific, nursing and administrative staff both nationally and internationally
• Recording information relating to organ offering via the National Transplant Database and arrange transportation of organs for transplant
• Liaising with transplant centres in relation to registration of urgent patients awaiting transplantation, capturing and recording transplant outcome information and removing patients from the waiting list following transplantation
• Liaising with research studies around placings organs for research where they have been deemed unsuitable for transplantation
• Coordinating logistical support with our transport provider to move organs and the National Organ Retrieval Teams
• Acting as the onsite emergency contact during out of office hours for the Organ Donation and Transplantation site

ODT Hub Operations is a friendly and welcoming department that lives and breathes NHSBTs values Caring, Expert, Quality. We are working to empower everyone in the department to make their own decisions, prioritise their own work and implement tools to help them self-manage. If you want work in an environment where you aren\'t micro managed, you are self-motivated and would thrive in a facilitative atmosphere this would be a great post for you.

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.