Specialist Transfusion Practitioner

The post holder will have a key role in:

• Creating a shared vision and promote safe and appropriate transfusion practice for the service across the trust.
• Facilitating an environment in which critical appraisal of practice is the norm.
• Education and training of trust staff in clinical blood transfusion.
• Work alongside the Lead Transfusion Practitioner/Chief Biomedical Scientist on the development and implementation of trust policies and procedures for blood transfusion, working with medical, nursing, scientific and other stakeholders for the transfusion of blood, components and products.
• Maintain statutory requirements e.g. Blood Safety and Quality Regulations (BSQR) 2005, United Kingdom Accreditation Services UKAS (ISO15189: 2022), CQC.
• Facilitating safe practice, preventing blood wastage and auditing blood usage/rejected samples and other appropriate audits, working in collaboration with the laboratory Biomedical Scientist (BMS) staff.
• Aware of national and regional initiatives and subsequent transfer of these into practice.
• Establish, co-ordinate and evaluate education and training programmes in all aspects of blood transfusion for all relevant staff groups, in addition develop links and partnership working with education providers.
• Be the link between the blood transfusion laboratory and clinical transfusion practices on wards, community and external sites i.e. Hospices