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Job Summary
For an inspirational supervisor or manager, this is a unique opportunity. You’ll lead one of our national tissue retrieval teams. With your help, we’ll safely and efficiently retrieve and store tissues, comply with regulations, and make the most of these valuable gifts.
Your focus will be on a deceased tissue group, such as Ocular, Cardiac or Musculoskeletal. You’ll take charge of a team, develop their skills, observe their performance and help them meet targets and improve standards. Naturally, you’ll also be part of rotas – and play an active role in the service.
Ultimately, the real reward is the work. Anyone in the country who needs a blood transfusion or a donation of tissue or an organ, relies on us. From recruiting both living and deceased donors to improving our expertise and processes, we’re on an exciting mission to save and improve even more lives. And that’s why we need your help.
Main Duties Of The Job
In this role you will be required to manage all aspects of the tissue retrieval service within a designated area on behalf of the National Retrieval Manager, planning the departmental work to maintain an efficient and robust retrieval service. Your responsibilities will include:
You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice. You will also be required to participate in a 7 day working rota requiring evening, weekend and public holiday working.
About You
Experience and Knowledge
Qualifications And Training
About Us
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.
What We Offer
This is a full time position, working 37.5 hours per week on a fixed term basis for 12 months.
To learn more, please see our recruitment profile, which provides a summary of the job description and person specification. This can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 25th March 2026 (subject to change). This vacancy may close sooner than the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we recommend applying early.
Interviews are anticipated to take place week commencing 12th April 2026 - subject to confirmation.
For informal enquiries please contact Claire Price – National Tissue Retrieval Manager, via email at: Claire.price@nhsbt.nhs.uk