Senior Specialist Blood Conservation and Transfusion Practitioner

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 7 Senior Specialist Blood Conservation and Transfusion Practitioner. The role focuses on safe transfusion and conservation practices, education, audit and governance to support high clinical standards across OUH sites.

The post holder will contribute to blood safety, conservation techniques, and patient blood management while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and clinical colleagues to promote safe practices and

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist diagnostic haemostasis service to clinical specialties across the Trust.
• Identify procedures requiring extensive red cell transfusion to determine suitability for cell salvage or other strategies.
• Collaborate with senior colleagues on diagnoses and plan patient management for prothrombotic or haematological conditions.
• Coordinate with pre-operative assessment and anaesthetic colleagues to ensure information on techniques is available for patients.
• Support education and training for staff on safe transfusion practice.
• Promote best practice in transfusion and patient blood management and assist with Smart Fridge technology and remote crossmatching.
• Identify improvement areas through audit and incidents and address via governance structures.
• Act as visible clinical presence across OUH sites to ensure safe, sustainable use of blood components Trust-wide.

Job description

Band 7 - Senior Specialist Blood Conservation and Transfusion Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for an Senior Specialist Blood Conservation and Transfusion Practitioner to join our team. The Blood Safety and Conservation Team (BSACT) bring together several interrelated areas of work within the Trust. The team offers a multidisciplinary approach to blood safety, conservation, and haemostasis management.

We offer all aspects of haemostasis management to a wide variety of surgical specialities across the Trust. Expert haemostasis analysis and the introduction of blood conservation techniques have resulted in transfusion reduction, decreased exposure to donor blood for patients, better anti-coagulation management, improved wound healing and shorter ITU and hospital stays.

The role is firmly grounded in being a visible presence in clinical areas to ensure that staff are supported to achieve safe transfusion and conservation practices in the use of blood and blood components. This will encompass aspects of education, audit and management but is firmly grounded in appropriate care provision and work to promote high clinical standards in line with current practice guidelines. The post holder will work to the safe and efficient use of blood products through education, training, audit, and incident review in clinical practice.

• To provide a highly specialist technical and diagnostic haemostasis service to the clinical specialities across the Trust.
• To identify procedures requiring extensive red cell transfusion to determine suitability for the use of cell salvage or other transfusion reduction strategies and advising clinicians appropriately. This will involve reviewing clinical case notes and blood usage data
• To work with senior colleagues on the formulation of diagnoses and plan patient management in patients presenting with prothrombotic tendencies or haematological conditions. This will include but not be limited to appropriate anti-coagulation, anti-platelet, and anti-fibrinolytic therapy.
• To work with pre-operative assessment and anaesthetic colleagues to ensure all information on techniques utilised is available for patients.
• They will support education and training for staff as directed on safe transfusion practice
• Promote best practice in transfusion and patient blood management, and assist with educating staff on how to use the Smart Fridge Technology, including remote electronic crossmatching.
• Identify areas requiring improvement through audit and incidents, and address these through appropriate governance structures and trust forums.
• Acting as a visible clinical presence across all OUH sites, the role will foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistent, safe, and sustainable use of blood and blood components Trust-wide.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and most respected NHS teaching trusts, providing world-class healthcare across four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Horton General Hospital and over one hundred satellite sites. Find out more information here OUH at a Glance 2026/27

You’ll become part of an organisation at the forefront of patient care, research, education and innovation. You’ll have access to excellent learning and development opportunities, work alongside highly skilled multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to services that make a real difference.

Our commitment to Delivering Compassionate Excellence is at the heart of everything we do. Guided by our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence, we strive to create an environment where staff feel supported, valued and empowered to thrive. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel and the OneTeamOneOUH - LIVING OUR VALUES video

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Keith Maher Job title: Lead Specialist Blood Conservation Practitioner Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 018652205502