Senior Healthcare Technical Officer

3 weeks ago


Basildon, United Kingdom NHS Blood and Transplant Full time

**Senior Healthcare Technical Officer**

**Job Summary**

As Senior Healthcare Technical Officer you will act as the first point of contact for hospitals requesting emergency deliveries, ensuring that their orders are entered and issued with the utmost efficiency. As well as performing a number of technical and scientific tasks - such as monitoring the temperature of storage units and undertaking maintenance duties well rely on you to assist in the training and development of other support staff.

Youll also, ideally, have a working knowledge of basic IT packages and some experience of working unsupervised in a laboratory environment. A good team player, youll be capable of motivating both yourself and others as you tackle a wide variety of tasks.

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 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.
- 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.
- 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.

This is a 24-hour shift-based post covering days, evenings, nights and bank holidays with some lone working. There is an 8-week shift pattern. There will also be a requirement to participate in an On-call Rota for 2 out of the 8 weeks.

**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, were 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.

Its 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 is an 18 months fixed term/secondment.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 1st May 2024.


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