Product Manager Therapeutic Apheresis Services

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Digital Nurse to support the management of the TAS Digital Service. The ideal candidate will oversee project delivery, act as a Subject Matter Expert on apheresis processes, and ensure that digital systems are implemented safely. This role involves significant engagement with clinical services and may require extensive travel and irregular hours. Join a team dedicated to saving lives through effective donation services.

Qualifications

• Ability to work irregular hours and travel extensively.
• Strong understanding of therapeutic apheresis processes.
• High degree of knowledge in digital technologies applied to clinical settings.

Responsibilities

• Support the Product Owner in managing the TAS Digital Service Delivery.
• Lead audits of implemented digital delivery initiatives.
• Engage with key stakeholders to ensure project impacts are understood.

Skills

Project management

Continuous improvement methodologies

Communication

Clinical competency in therapeutic apheresis

Job description

Our Strategy is to drive innovation and modernise our service by implementing a long-awaited digital system within TAS. A project team has been working towards this for over a year. This has now reached a stage where it involves dedicated staff from DDTS, Quality, CI and Nursing experts from TAS, Lead by a Transformation Manager.

Patient safety and improving care are at the heart of these roles. They are critical to ensure that we design and deploy digital technologies in safe ways and avoid potential harm to patients or donors. Digital nurses are responsible for ensuring that systems can meet the needs of their service, patients and donors and are clinically safe. As part of the TAS digital project team, these roles act as an interpreter between IT and clinical services. The digital nurses and the IT colleagues will work through questions about new digital technologies ensuring new systems meet their needs in practice. We currently have no digital systems. The aim longer term is for these roles to be embedded into the team permanently as per Therapeutic Apheresis Services, which aligns to acute trusts and community providers alike.

Digital technologies that are not designed and deployed with safety in mind have the potential to harm patients, so it is the responsibility of the senior product owner and product owner to ensure that systems are clinically safe and designed to help clinicians and services provide excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job

1. Supporting the Product Owner in the delivery of the TAS Digital Service Delivery portfolio by managing projects with autonomy and credibility, engaging with colleagues and key stakeholders as well as actively contributing to problem solving and strategic planning.
2. Working within the TAS team to ensure projects/workstreams are delivered as they impact the operational service.
3. Leading the audit of any implemented digital delivery initiatives.
4. Having the relevant skills in development, implementation and maintenance of continuous improvement skills, tools, methods, processes and resources.
5. Enhancing the organisation's reputation by highlighting our successes and good practice in this area to others.
6. Being a Subject Matter Expert, with a high degree of knowledge in existing and future apheresis processes; with a strong understanding of users, the therapeutic apheresis environment, digital supporting TAS.

Willing and able to work irregular hours and travel extensively, including overnight stays when required (with prior notice), and to maintain clinical competency by independently delivering therapeutic apheresis on call within core working hours.

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. 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