Bt Associate Transfusion Practitioner

4 months ago


Wolverhampton, United Kingdom The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Full time

The post holder is expected to work as part of a team within the Transfusion Laboratory. After training they will be required to:
- Carry out basic blood transfusion traceability procedures and provide support to the Transfusion Practitioners to ensure the quality management system for the hospital transfusion laboratory starts from the receipt of the blood from the blood centre to the time the unit is transfused or otherwise disposed of.

The post holder will at all times promote GDP (Good Distribution Practice) which requires us to “ensure that storage conditions are observed at all times, including during transportation.”

Concentration and attention to detail and the ability to be WARM (Work Accurately Reduce Mistakes) are essential to these processes and form the greater part of the working day.

Booking requests for and blood group and antibody screen, requests for blood products, haemolytic disease of the new-born and batch products. Also, to deal with any specimen rejections and to alert the BMS team of any urgent or complex requests.

Deal with any telephone queries in blood transfusion

To process samples received in the laboratory for group and antibody screening on the automated grouping analysers which will include topping up of consumables, maintenance, running quality control (letting the BMS know when the results need to be accepted), quality assurance and troubleshooting in the event of unexpected errors.

To check outstanding lists for blood transfusion tests and chase up results which fall outside of the departmental stated TATs

Temperature probe testing to support cold chain officer or cover of their absence.

Receipt of blood products, batch products and stock rotation.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Please see full list of tasks and responsibilities in the attached Job Descrption and Personal Specification



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