Senior Healthcare Technical Officer

7 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

**Job Summary**

NHS Blood and Transplant is an integral part of the NHS. Operating a network of centres across England and North Wales, we collect around 2 million units of blood and tissues a year, converting them into safe and effective blood components, blood and tissue products for use in the treatments of patients.

In this role you’ll undertake detailed laboratory work and provide vital support to qualified scientific staff. Specifically, that means preparing samples for testing or storage, performing analytical tests and carrying out basic maintenance on equipment. You’ll also be on hand to deal with queries from other departments, medical staff or visitors and to assist in the training and development of other support staff.

**Main duties of the job**
- You will be required to perform a range of scientific and technical activities related to the blood (and where appropriate tissue) donations from our donors, with the support of the team.
- You will be responsible for the support and training of new and less experienced staff.
- You will be required to undertake precise repetitive manipulation of equipment and blood samples/donations and carry out routine tasks on a regular basis.
- You will be required to handle blood bags and a range of equipment.
- You will be required to manually handle equipment on a daily basis weighing up to 13 kgs, with or without mechanical aids, with appropriate training.

The role will require you to work variable hours and days, weekends and bank holidays as per the roster within the department (unless otherwise rostered within the shift agreement) with appropriate notice.

**About You**

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of working with Information Technology such as Microsoft Office

**Qualifications and Training**
- Evidence of furthering personal development. Willingness to undertake further training and 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.**

There are 3 vacancies available within Testing:

- Bacterial Screening - 0.8 whole time equivalent, 30 hours per week - Rota:

- Mon - Fri 8am - 2pm
- Sun - Thurs 5.30am - 11.30am
- Sun - Thurs 5.30am - 11.30am Mon - Fri 8am - 2pm
- Quality Monitoring - 1 whole time equivalent, 37.5 hours per week Tues - Sat - 8am - 4pm
- Main lab - 1 whole time equivalent, 37.5 hours per week
- Mon - Fri - 8am - 4pm
- Mon - Fri - 10am - 6pm

These vacancies will close at 23:59 on Sunday 3rd December.



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