Specialist Nurse Organ Donation

Our team oversees organ and tissue donation to maximise donation opportunities to save as many lives as possible through transplantation. We ensure we do our amazing donors justice and give a lifeline to thousands of people every year. We provide support and guidance to patients and families to ensure we deliver a world-class service.

Main duties of the job

You will play a key role in saving and improving lives through being an ambassador for our services and be a central point for medical teams to help deliver and facilitate a successful organ and tissue donation process. You will have the opportunity to help patients and families and unite teams to deliver life-saving services. Your responsibilities will include:

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse Adult Care, General Nursing (Part 1 and 2) or Childrens nursing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional register.
• First degree or equivalent qualification in allied health or related field /job related experience equivalent to degree level knowledge.
• Post graduate level qualification in relevant healthcare environment for example critical care.
• Requirement for NMC professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role).
• Demonstrate commitment to own Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a clinical setting and demonstration of effective leadership qualities and ability may be supported with leadership/managerial experience.
• Post registration clinical experience to families of patients who are critically ill, via nursing in critical care, ICU or emergency department.
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Experience of clinical audit and data collection.

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.