Area Sister​/Charge Nurse - South Midlands

Job summary

As an Area Session Sister / Charge Nurse with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you will play a vital role in helping to save and improve lives by leading blood donation teams across your area. You will provide expert clinical leadership, making sure donors receive safe, high-quality care while supporting your team to deliver excellent results. Working at the heart of the donation journey, you will oversee session performance, donor eligibility, regulatory compliance and service quality.

You will be the clinical expert on session, supporting colleagues, managing risk and championing continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to contribute to a service that makes a real difference every day while continuing to develop your leadership, clinical and people management skills.

• Lead donor-facing teams to deliver a safe, high-quality donation experience that puts donors and patients at the centre of everything you do.
• Use your clinical expertise to guide donor assessment, eligibility decisions and the management of adverse events, helping to ensure donor and product safety.
• Support and develop colleagues through coaching, mentoring, feedback and training, helping them learn, grow and succeed in their roles.
• Drive quality and regulatory compliance by promoting best practice, identifying improvements and supporting change across donor sessions.
• Analyse performance information, respond to emerging issues and take action to help teams achieve operational and quality objectives.
• Act as a visible clinical leader and role model, creating a positive culture that reflects NHSBT values of caring, expertise and quality.
• Build strong relationships with donors, colleagues and stakeholders, communicating clearly and confidently in a range of situations.
• Contribute to service improvement, clinical audit and innovation activities that help shape and strengthen future practice.

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.

As an Area Session Sister / Charge Nurse with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you will play a vital role in helping to save and improve lives by leading blood donation teams across your area. You will provide expert clinical leadership, making sure donors receive safe, high-quality care while supporting your team to deliver excellent results. Working at the heart of the donation journey, you will oversee session performance, donor eligibility, regulatory compliance…