Sister/Charge Nurse

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in London seeks a qualified professional to lead a team ensuring safe blood donation practices. Responsibilities include team management, donor assessment, and maintaining service quality. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership and clinical skills, ensuring exceptional donor experiences while adhering to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills required to manage a team effectively.
• Clinical expertise is essential for donor assessment.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements needed for blood donation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Donor Carers and Supervisors to deliver excellent care.
• Assess potential donors against health and safety criteria.
• Ensure safe running of blood donation sessions.

Skills

Leadership skills

Clinical expertise

Understanding of regulatory requirements

Job description

Overview

You will be responsible for leading a team of Donor Carers and Donor Care Supervisors, ensuring they are motivated, well-trained, and capable of delivering excellent care. You will foster a positive working environment, provide ongoing training and support, and address any team issues or concerns that arise. You will use your clinical expertise and judgment to assess whether potential donors meet the necessary health and safety criteria for blood donation.

This includes considering the donor's medical history, current health status, and any other relevant factors. This role requires strong leadership skills, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of regulatory requirements.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers exceptional care while making critical decisions that affect donor safety and the overall quality of the service.

Responsibilities

• Take clinical responsibility for ensuring the safe assessment and blood donation of our donors. Be accountable for the safe running of a blood donation session.
• Ensure an excellent donor experience.
• Maintain the competency and skills of your team and yourself.
• Be able to adapt communication styles for difficult conversations.
• Maintain your professional development to help deliver improvements to our practice.

Working hours and conditions

Your working hours will be on a shift basis, with the normal pattern being 4 days per week / 8 days per fortnight. Early shifts start between 07:15 and 08:20 and finish between 17:25 and 19:05. Late shifts start between 10:15 and 12:10 and finish between 21:05 and 22:05, typically 9.40 hour days. Shift times vary according to the location of the session. Weekend and bank holiday working will be required. You can expect to work some long hours, but you won’t be working more than five days a week.

About NHS Blood and Transplant

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.

Core values

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.