Overview
This post, which commences in August 2026, is for haematology specialty trainees or haematology specialty (locally employed) doctors working in the UK at Specialist Training Level 5 (ST5) or above, who want to pursue a career in Transfusion Medicine. It is a one‑year fixed term contract based with the Patient Blood Management team but including sessions across the transfusion directorate aimed at providing subspecialty experience in Transfusion Medicine. This is an established programme for Out of Programme Experience which has gained excellent feedback from previous fellows. You will be part of a national team working to deliver blood and blood components to patients in hospitals in England.
Responsibilities
* Daytime duty work and longer term quality improvement and project work. Duty work will involve taking queries from within the organisation and NHS Trusts, giving clinical advice to inform decisions around individual patients and components.
* All clinical work will be supervised by a named consultant.
* Submit at least one project as a conference abstract and/or to a peer reviewed journal.
* Deliver teaching to doctors, nurses, biomedical and clinical scientists.
* Acquire subspecialty skills and experience in Components, Donor Medicine, Red Cell Immunohaematology, Patient Blood Management (PBM).
* Acquire further knowledge of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Manufacturing and Logistics, Cell, Apheresis and Gene Therapies, Haemovigilance, Research, Audit and Quality Improvement.
* Supported in pursuing an honorary contract with the Trust to enable you acquire skills in hospital‑based transfusion practice (participation in hospital transfusion team meetings etc.).
Qualifications
* Haematology specialty trainees or haematology specialty (locally employed) doctors at Specialist Training Level 5 (ST5) or above.
* Based at any of the following main centres in the UK: Leeds/Barnsley, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, London, or Oxford.
* Experience in haemovigilance, audit, and quality improvement is desirable.
Values and Culture
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. By being caring, meeting the needs of 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.
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