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Senior Retrieval Assistant

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

**Job Summary**

The National Health Service Blood and Transplant Tissue Services are an integral part of the NHS. Our Tissue Donation Programme saves and radically improves hundreds of lives every year.

You will have NVQ level 3 in Care or Science or 4 GCSE’s at Grade C or above including English and Maths (or equivalent). You will also need to be able to retrieve multiple tissues from newly deceased donors. You must have good IT and organisational skills as you will have considerable administrative duties. A valid driving license is essential.

If you are able to work evenings and weekends within a 7 day scheduled rota, we’d like to hear from you.

We anticipate training to the Senior Tissue Donation Assistant role to take 6-12 months.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) offers a dynamic and friendly working environment where teamwork is highly valued. Personal development is also considered a priority and is supported through extensive training and development opportunities open to all employees.

**Main duties of the job**
- You will support the work of the Retrieval team, performing a range of routine tasks which relate to the donation, transport and follow up of deceased donors. This will include performing deceased tissue retrieval (e.g. eyes, bone, skin and heart) under direct supervision.
- Following successful probation and training in the Senior Retrieval Assistant role you will be competent to facilitate eye retrieval without supervision.
- You will be competent to facilitate the retrieval of eyes from deceased donors without supervision at non-NHSBT locations after training and assessment.
- You will be required to support the work of the Surgical Living Donation Programme to include occasional bone collections at site and process paperwork in relation to the programme.
- You will work flexibly across the range of activities as rostered.
- You will be required to work weekends and evenings with notice.

**About You**

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Experience of working with Information Technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

**Qualifications and Training**
- Educated to HND level, NVQ level 3 or equivalent in Health Care Science or relevant science field and/or equivalent knowledge of science or health care work, acquired through formal training and experience
- Possess a valid driving licence, allowing you to drive in the UK

Evidence of continuous professional development

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

**About Us**

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

Three small words, one big difference - **Caring, Expert** and **Quality**.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on **Sunday 11**th** February 2024.

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