Overview
Hub Operations provide information efficiently and effectively to those in the wider donation and transplant community to make transplants happen, ensure patient safety and to help fulfil our statutory obligations. This includes facilitating up to 1,600 per year, conduct over 39,000 offers and ensuring that 4500 potential transplant recipients receive an offer of a live saving or improving transplant. ODT Hub Operations is a friendly and welcoming department that lives and breathes NHSBTs values Caring, Expert, Quality. We are working to empower everyone in the department to make their own decisions, prioritise their own work and implement tools to help them self-manage. If you want work in an environment where you arent micro managed, you are self-motivated and would thrive in a facilitative atmosphere this would be a great post for you.
Responsibilities
* Co-ordinate the matching and allocation of human organs for transplantation, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year to the UK, Republic of Ireland and European Organ Exchange Organisations.
* Communicating with consultants, medical, scientific, nursing and administrative staff both nationally and internationally
* Recording information relating to organ offering via the National Transplant Database and arrange transportation of organs for transplant.
* Liaising with transplant centres in relation to registration of urgent patients awaiting transplantation, capturing and recording transplant outcome information and removing patients from the waiting list following transplantation.
* Liaising with research studies around placings organs for research where they have been deemed unsuitable for transplantation.
* Coordinating logistical support with our transport provider to move organs and the National Organ Retrieval Teams.
* Acting as the onsite emergency contact during out of office hours for the Organ Donation and Transplantation site
* You will be required to take part in a rota to support 24/7 working. Shifts include day, night, weekend and bank holiday. You will receive notice in advance of the shifts and on-call to be covered
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll 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
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