Band 6 Transfusion Practitioner

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., We have an exciting opportunity for a Transfusion Practitioner to join our team working at University Hospitals Birmingham. You will be key in ensuring the safety of patients undergoing blood transfusion. You'll have the chance to work not only across our hospitals, but in renal dialysis units, hospices, and some of our neighbouring sites, including the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. You'll be a great fit for this role if you:

• Are a registered nurse, midwife, biomedical scientist, or operating department practitioner
• Have UK experience with blood transfusions working in either:
oA ward or in theatres where you have administered blood transfusions oA transfusion laboratory (blood bank)
• Have a passion for making improvements based on findings from investigating incidents and completing audits, and implementing these through teaching and training, and producing educational materials.
As this role is supporting staff rather than caring for patients or working in the laboratory, we recognise that many of our tasks you are not likely to have experienced before, as such you will be working with experienced practitioners and will have the opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge working in this multidisciplinary team.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives. UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work. University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.