Senior Nurse Practitioner Microbiology

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Senior Nurse Practitioner in Microbiology. Responsibilities include assessing and supporting blood and stem cell donors, managing consultations on microbiology screening results, and making clinical decisions regarding donor eligibility. Candidates must be registered nurses with significant experience and strong skills in clinical history taking and counseling. This role emphasizes safe blood product management and effective communication with stakeholders. Competitive pay and professional development opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with maintained Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.
• Significant relevant post-registration experience.
• Experience in clinical history taking and counseling.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and advice to blood and stem cell donors.
• Conduct detailed consultations regarding microbiology screening results.
• Make clinical decisions about donor eligibility.

Skills

Clinical history taking

Counseling skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Flexibility

Education

Registered Nurse (RN1 or RNA)

Post-graduate education or equivalent experience

Tools

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

Job description

As a Senior Nurse Practitioner in Microbiology, the primary focus of the role is the assessment, management and support of blood and stem cell donors, with a significant proportion of the work undertaken through detailed telephone consultations. The post holder acts as an autonomous clinical decision-maker, contacting donors to discuss microbiology screening results, including sensitive and complex markers such as HIV, hepatitis and other transfusion-transmissible infections, while gathering detailed medical, travel and risk history to determine donor and product eligibility. Using expert knowledge of donor selection guidelines, microbiology testing and risk assessment, the Senior Nurse Practitioner provides clear, compassionate advice, makes high-level clinical judgements on donor deferral or reinstatement, and ensures the safety of patients and blood products, while liaising with GPs and specialist services where required.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Nurse Practitioner, you will be part of the Microbiology team and will ensure the delivery of safe and effective care to donors, with a major focus on direct donor contact by telephone. A core element of the role is communicating with donors to discuss microbiology screening results, including sensitive and complex markers, gathering detailed medical, travel and risk information, and making high-level clinical decisions about donor and product eligibility to protect patient safety. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing excellent post donation product management and expert advice to NHSBT departments and external organisations.
• Acting with a high level of autonomy, the post holder will demonstrate critical thinking and skills in clinical decision making.
• Working collaboratively with the organisation to meet the needs of donors and supporting the delivery of safe blood products.
• Contributing to the wider development and strategic direction of the Clinical Support team.
• Communicating effectively with a broad spectrum of stakeholders such as medical staff and General Practitioners, records and administrative staff, National Contact Centre, Senior Sisters/Charge Nurses and other NHSBT departments.
• You will be required to travel occasionally and work flexible hours to meet service demands (no nights or weekends).

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

• Registered Nurse (RN1 or RNA) with Nursing and Midwifery Council (which must be maintained) with relevant post-registration experience.
• Significant experience with evidence of either post-graduate education or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Evidence of significant experience in clinical history taking/ counselling.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).

Experience

• Understand the principles of clinical effectiveness and best practice. Has the ability to be flexible and to look beyond existing ways of working and boundaries to produce effective and innovative service delivery.
• Possess experience of planning and delivering teaching programmes within a clinical environment.
• Demonstrate experience of planning, implementing, and evaluating changes in clinical practice.
• Experience of initiating and supporting the professional development of other staff, whilst supporting own development.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of clinical audit and research.
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.