Area Matron

Join NHS Blood and Transplant as an Area Manager / Area Matron and lead blood donation services that make a direct contribution to saving and improving lives. You will provide visible, confident leadership across several blood donation teams, ensuring safe, high-quality and efficient services while delivering an excellent experience for our donors. You will lead and develop a geographically dispersed workforce, use performance and quality information to drive improvement, and ensure services meet demanding operational and regulatory standards. You will also play an important role in developing our people, managing resources effectively and leading change, working collaboratively across NHSBT to ensure we have a safe and sufficient supply of blood and blood components for patients who need them.,

• Lead and manage blood donation teams across a defined geographical area, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of whole blood and blood component collection services.
• Take accountability for donor and product safety and ensure services operate in line with relevant quality, regulatory and governance requirements.
• Lead, motivate and develop a geographically dispersed workforce, setting clear expectations and managing performance against key performance indicators and strategic targets.
• Champion an excellent donor experience, using feedback, performance information and improvement activity to strengthen donor satisfaction, loyalty and retention.
• Lead continuous improvement and change, identifying opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and operational effectiveness.
• Lead and support quality investigations, root cause analysis, inspections and corrective and preventative actions within your area.
• Use complex operational, performance and donor information to identify issues, make informed decisions and improve service delivery.
• Manage budgets, resources, premises, equipment and expenditure effectively, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency without compromising quality or safety.
• Build effective relationships across NHSBT and work collaboratively with managers, clinicians, staff and other stakeholders to deliver organisational priorities.
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work