Scientific Training Manager - CMT

Based within the CMT National Operations Team, this role provides a unique opportunity for the right person to lead on a variety of internal and external training initiatives.

In this role you will lead a team of scientists, with support from the CMT National Operations Manager and Quality and Improvement Specialist, to develop and enhance the training of scientific colleagues providing stem cell services and/or involved with the manufacture of cell and gene therapies.

You will build and maintain links and relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including professional bodies, engaging, informing, and collaborating to address training challenges, and to develop external training programmes for the wider cell and gene therapy community.

You will also be the CMT lead for the joint NHSBT/UWE MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation, coordinating teaching and examinations related to stem cell and advanced cell therapies.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will develop and provide expert, proactive, professional and high quality educational programmes both within NHSBT and to the wider Medical/Nursing/Pharmacy/Scientific community and, with a particular focus on training in Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with key stakeholders to identify areas where scientific training and development can add value, by offering solutions to strategic goals and improving organisational performance based on meeting the Business Plan, the Organisation Development and People Plans and strategic aims.


• Providing professional education leadership for the scientific community in NHSBT, through collaborative working with senior managers and offering highly specialist advice.


• Representing NHSBT through effective work with university partners, NHS and private sector organisations, professional societies and regulatory bodies.


• Analysing and acting on primary and secondary data such as evaluations of training interventions and programmes to proactively manage agreed targets, standards, activity reports and action plans for all activity undertaken.


• Promoting CMT initiatives that support NHSBT strategic aims and objectives and act as role model for NHSBT values and behaviours.


• Communicating highly complex and sensitive information to stakeholders at all levels across the organisation.
  
  It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you will 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.