Transfusion Medicine Fellow: PBM, Research & Teaching

NHS Blood and Transplant; Highgate; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Blood and Transplant in the UK is offering a one-year fixed-term post for haematology specialty trainees at ST5 level or above who want a career in Transfusion Medicine. The role includes sessions across the transfusion directorate and subspecialty exposure.

You will work with the Patient Blood Management team to deliver across centres and be supervised by a Consultant Haematologist Educational Supervisor, including teaching and quality improvement projects.

Responsibilities

• Combination of daytime duty work and longer-term quality improvement and project work.
• Duty work will involve taking queries from within the organisation and NHS Trusts, giving clinical advice to inform decisions around individual patients and components.
• Submit at least one project as a conference abstract and/or to a peer reviewed journal; deliver teaching to doctors, nurses, biomedical and clinical scientists.
• Acquire subspecialty skills and experience in: Components, Donor Medicine, Red Cell Immunohaematology, Patient Blood Management (PBM).
• Acquire further knowledge of: Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Manufacturing and Logistics, Cell, Apheresis and Gene Therapies, Haemovigilance, Research, Audit and Quality Improvement.
• Supported in pursuing an honorary contract with the Trust to enable skills in hospital-based transfusion practice.

Job description

NHS Blood and Transplant in the UK is offering a one-year fixed-term post for haematology specialty trainees at ST5 level or above who want a career in Transfusion Medicine. The role includes sessions across the transfusion directorate and subspecialty exposure.

You will work with the Patient Blood Management team to deliver across centres and be supervised by a Consultant Haematologist Educational Supervisor, including teaching and quality improvement projects.