Lead Nurse - Eye Donation Schemes

At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we are a unique organisation that saves and improves lives every day. We are on a mission to ensure every patient receives the donation they need.

We are looking for a Lead Nurse to join our Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation (OTDT) directorate as a key member of the Tissue Donation Leadership team, focusing on Eye Donation Schemes.

Through professional leadership and stakeholder engagement you will be accountable for UK Eye Donation Schemes, ensuring donation opportunities are maximised against the available donor pool at identified NHS Hospitals.

This unique role enables the successful candidate to utilise their identified leadership skills and clinical expertise in deceased donation, to support the continued development of the schemes in order to meet the need for patients currently awaiting a corneal transplant in the UK.

The successful candidate will have opportunity to develop both as part of a team and as an individual autonomous practitioner, building on existing data collection to continually strengthen clinical practice.

This role provides opportunity for direct line management, internal and external stakeholder engagement with one key aim of meeting the need of patients awaiting a corneal transplant.

Main duties of the job

As service lead, you will be accountable for all UK Eye Donation Schemes ensuring corneal donation opportunities at contractual sites are maximised. You will provide operational and professional leadership to the National Eye Donation Schemes, establishing and maintaining clear communication pathways between the schemes and NHSBT. You will also:

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate experience of clinical leadership on a team level.
• Demonstrate experience of planning, implementing and evaluating change.
• Demonstrate awareness of performance objectives and organisational targets.
• Demonstrate experience of clinical teaching.
• Evidence of proven leadership and management experience by influence and direct management.
• Experience of contribution to development or strategy and service development.
• Demonstrates an understanding and evidence participation in principles of clinical audit, and data collection.
• Demonstrates involvement in personal and professional development for self.
• Demonstrates an awareness of current issues in nursing.

About the employer

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll 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 with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.