Senior Specialist Blood Conservation And Transfusion Practitioner

Oxford University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Senior Specialist Blood Conservation and Transfusion Practitioner. The role spans education, audits, and governance to promote safe transfusion and conservation practices across OUH sites.

You will provide expert haemostasis support, review transfusion needs, and work with pre-operative and anaesthetic teams to ensure information on techniques is available to patients.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or ODP with professional registration and a relevant degree.
• Minimum 4 years’ post-registration experience with at least 1 year at Band 6.
• Experience in perioperative or transfusion services and teaching/mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly specialist haemostasis service across clinical specialities.
• Identify procedures to reduce red cell transfusion and advise clinicians accordingly.
• Lead education and training on safe transfusion practice and blood conservation.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Audit

Risk management

Time management

Data analysis

Excel

Education

Registered Nurse/Midwife or ODP

Relevant Degree to the Profession

4+ years perioperative experience

Teaching / Assessment / Mentoring

Tools

BloodTrack

Job description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached PDF documents, which include the full job description and person specification for this role. These documents outline the key responsibilities, required qualifications, and competencies essential for successful performance in the position.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Midwife or Operating Department Practitioner
• Relevant Degree to the Profession
• At least 4 years' experience as a Registered Nurse, Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Midwife with at least 1 year at Band 6 level.
• Teaching / Assessment / Mentoring experience or qualification
• At least 5 years perioperative experience

Desirable

• Demonstrate post graduate level study (HEI Level 7) or post graduate level working evidenced via continuous professional development portfolio/ or equivalent / or willing to work towards
• Relevant role based experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates up to date knowledge and experience in the speciality and evidenced based practice
• Knowledge of the key professional issues and guidelines relating to professional practice
• Demonstrate decision making and the ability to work across professional boundaries
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills by identifying, leading and implementing change required for service improvement, risk management, governance and quality
• Knowledge of transfusion related regulatory compliance and reporting structures
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a wide range of approaches to the management of coagulation including point of care testing.

Desirable

• Experience of working with and engaging a wide range of stakeholders
• Risk management training/education and awareness of the risk assessment processExperience in using Incident reporting systems ( e. g. Ulysses )

Skills

Essential

• Leadership evidence at Band 6 Level
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills
• Experience or knowledge of audit
• Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely with independent problem- solving / decision-making, trouble shooting skills
• Good time management, organisational skills and ability to prioritise a busy/ unpredictable workload
• Appreciate the accountability associated with advanced clinical practitioner roles and autonomous working
• Demonstrable experience/knowledge of databases, specifically Excel, MS word etc and data analysis
• Able to perform under pressure in emergency situations. Flexibility to ensure the delivery of an effective and efficient service.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Electronic Blood Management Systems (EBMS) e. g BloodTrack
• Ability to think strategically in relation to long term service development
• Awareness of Clinical Governance, Clinical Effectiveness, and Patient Safety Agenda within the NHS.
• Ability to deliver training and education across all professional groups
• Knowledge of cell salvage and TEG and their employment into blood conservation strategies

Organisational Values

Essential

• Compassion: Putting patients first with kindness and empathy.
• Excellence: Striving for the highest standards in healthcare, research, and innovation.
• Learning: Encouraging education, training, and continuous personal growth.
• Respect: Valuing every individual and promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Delivery: Meeting operational goals and providing reliable services.
• Improvement: Constantly finding new ways to make care safer and more efficient

Desirable

• Strategic vision
• Evidenced application of these values

Other

Essential

• An interest in clinical transfusion practice and demonstrates an understanding of relevant national strategy / policy and this relates to the service
• An interest in the advancement of Blood conservation strategies locally and nationally.

Desirable

• Interest in digital transformation

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).