Advanced Transfusion Practitioner | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7201881/321-CORP-7201881-B7-PUB |
Summary
Advanced Transfusion Practitioner Role Band 7:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Transfusion Practitioner to join our team. The role is firmly grounded in being a visible presence in clinical areas to ensure that staff are supported to achieve safe transfusion practice in the use of blood and blood components. This will encompass aspects of education, audit and management but is firmly grounded in appropriate care provision and work to promote high clinical standards in line with current practice guidelines. The post holder will work to the safe and efficient use of blood products through education, training, audit, and incident review in clinical practice.
• To be a visible presence in clinical areas to ensure that staff are supported to achieve safe transfusion practice.
• To participate in and lead on education and give support relevant to the transfusion process to nursing, medical and clinical support staff.
• To conduct monthly audits of clinical transfusion practice and investigate incidents and variances from blood transfusion guidelines.
• To ensure any required corrective action is implemented following incidents and audit.
• To contribute to and advise in the development and dissemination of evidence based local transfusion guidelines and policies.
• To promote patient blood management.
• Provide evidence to support Trust-wide assurance initiatives.
• Work autonomously within a wider health care team.
• Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve blood transfusion practice.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Please see the attached job description and person specification attached as PDF documents.
• To be a visible presence in clinical areas to ensure that staff are supported to achieve safe transfusion practice.
• To use up to date peer-reviewed evidence to improve practice.
• To participate in and lead on education and give support relevant to the transfusion process to nursing, medical and clinical support staff.
• To conduct monthly audits of clinical transfusion practice and investigate incidents and variances from blood transfusion guidelines.
• To ensure any required corrective action is implemented following incidents and audit.
• To contribute to and advise on the development and dissemination of evidence based local transfusion guidelines and policies.
• Work autonomously within a wider health care team.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Jun 2025
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