Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner - Blood Bank Pathology

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small diverse transfusion practitioner's team working across site at University Hospitals Birmingham ensuring the safety of patients undergoing blood transfusion. If you have a passion for teaching, training, investigating incidents, Audits, producing educational materials and can adapt to challenging situation this is the post for you. Everything we do impacts on patients' safety surrounding blood components, so we aim, as a team, to promote and develop safe transfusion practice. The working hours are from Monday to Friday 0800-1600., Blood transfusion is a highly regulated field to ensure patient safety; this role plays a vital part in ensuring UHB complies with the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations and ISO15189 standards in relation to blood component storage and blood traceability. You will be assisting to ensure that UHB can demonstrate how it is complying with the regulations. To achieve this, you will be expected to undertake audits, reported on a local and national level. You will investigate incidents, ensuring findings are appropriately acted upon, and ensure evidence is completed to show the transfusion service is running safely and efficiently. You will also be encouraged to identify areas and plans for quality improvements. You will be well organised, able to converse with a wide range of staff groups and have a good understanding of clinical or laboratory transfusion practice within the UK. Whilst in post you will be supported to understand the whole transfusion pathway through both the clinical
areas and laboratory.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.