Associate Transfusion Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for an Allied Healthcare Professional such as nurse/midwife/biomedical scientist to complement our team.

As a Transfusion Practitioner you will provide a link between the transfusion laboratory and the clinical services. You are required to have a recognised professional registration such as a current Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration. Vital to this role is recent experience and understanding of processes and laws in relation to transfusion in the UK. As you will be interacting with many different health care professionals excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills are also important.

Blood transfusion is a highly regulated field to ensure patient safety, so there will be involvement in audits on a local and national level, to ensure that the RWT transfusion service is running safely and efficiently. This might include acting on the findings of an audit to improve the service. You will also be encouraged to identify areas for quality improvement and ways to achieve this.

This post will be based at the New Cross Hospital site, however there is a requirement to travel across and work at other sites.

Main duties of the job

Associate Transfusion Practitioner of Transfusion (ATP) assists the TP in providing clinical leadership and management support, developing and evaluating best practice Trust Wide. The post-holder will deputise for the TP as required, in implementing the requirements derived from the Department of Health circulars.

The post holder will work as a member of the Hospital Transfusion Team (HTT) and in conjunction with the Hospital Transfusion Group (HTG). They will work trust wide, utilising their extensive knowledge and skill base to provide specialist/technical support, assessing quality of clinical service and other practice learning environments, propose and deliver interventions for improvement.

As part of this, Trusts are required to have set protocols for blood transfusion, supported by in house training of all staff taking part in the transfusion process. The post holder will be instrumental in facilitating safe practice, preventing blood wastage and auditing blood usage, working in collaboration with the Blood Bank Biomedical Scientist (BMS) staff. There are also recommendations for new programmes to avoid the unnecessary use of blood in clinical practice and to provide better information to patients and the public regarding transfusion

About us

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 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 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC/NMC Registered Further post registration qualification Driving License

Desirable

Teaching qualification Specialist portfolio

Experience

Essential

Post registration experience Recent experience of working in an acute hospital setting Relevant knowledge for all aspects of job role including principles and applications of Blood Transfusion.

Desirable

Good IT literacy and knowledge of laboratory information management systems Experience of audit and quality assurance.

Communication Skills

Essential

Good command of spoken and written English Have good communication skills both orally and written.

Desirable

Ability to communicate with Technical/Clinical leads to deliver effective service.

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