Blood Transfusion Practitioner King's Lynn, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Transfusion department for a Blood Transfusion Practitioner. Within our department and Trust, we have a patient centred attitude, striving to provide the best possible care and creating a positive and supportive environment within the Trust. You will be working in a friendly well established team.
The Haematology laboratory services at King’s Lynn are part of the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA) group consisting of the QEH, the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and The James Paget Hospital.
The post holder will work in collaboration with the Hospital Transfusion Team locally and across the ICS to ensure safe and effective working practice and effective use of resources and to educate staff across the trust in all aspects of transfusion of blood and blood components. You will play a pivotal role in promoting the understanding of the transfusion process across the trust.
To organise the provision of a comprehensive transfusion service and to work in collaboration with the laboratory, trust colleagues and members of the provide the highest standard of care and support to patients with complex transfusion needs, chronic anemia of those refusing blood transfusion and their families.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech.
In February 2022, the significant progress that has been made at QEH in just three years since 2019 was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures). We have an absolute determination to continuously improve care and services for our patients and their families.
For full details please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Corporate Services: http://www.qehkl.nhs.uk/document/divisional-booklets/Introducing_Corporate_Services.pdf
