Consultant Clinical Scientist - RCI

Overview

This is a great opportunity to act as a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Transfusion Science. At NHSBT you will be a member of the Red Cell Immunohematology (RCI) senior management team to ensure safe and clinically effective use of red cells and other blood components. You will provide scientific and expert advice to internal and external customers to NHSBT. Your knowledge and experience will ensure that the NHSBT remains a centre of excellence in transfusion science.

Your organisational and leadership skills will ensure the transfusion service continues to deliver a cost effective and responsive service to patients and users of the service. NHSBT will offer training and development opportunities to maintain and enhance your personal development.

• Providing a primary source of expert advice and opinion, using professional judgement to advise scientists and clinicians on the appropriate investigations to perform on individual patients, the scientific and clinical interpretation of results and appropriate future patient investigation and/or management.
• Advising on the appropriateness and safety of transfusion in the presence of complex and conflicting evidence.
• Working alongside the Head of Function and as part of the RCI Senior Management Team (SMT) to provide strategic direction and expert professional leadership.
• Participating in the ongoing development of, and innovation in service practice using established continuous improvement methodologies.
• Undertaking data/information gathering, chairing the RCA of any QIs, SUIs or SAEDs, and signing off any remedial actions, providing clinical oversight and input both within the organisation and at a national level.
• Undertaking research, clinical audits and innovation in the specialist field, resulting in national/international impact and continuous improvement in clinical practice.
• Being required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

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 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 culture of excellence.