Job Summary As an Area Sister / Charge Nurse in this autonomous role, you will lead and motivate a team of Healthcare Assistants, on donation teams across Southampton. You will use your clinical judgement to make safe decisions about suitability and ensure your teams deliver a high standard of care that enables us to meet our regulatory and governance requirements. We need your leadership and management skills to ensure that patients receive safe blood and blood products, and our donors feel safe and cared for. By giving the best experience we can for our donors, you will ensure they will want to return time and time again. No prior specialist knowledge is required for this band 6 role, we value what you bring. If you are able to work independently, lead with compassion and resilience, excited by the prospect of enabling change in a fast moving environment, then this is the job for you. We will provide all the training and support you will need with excellent learning and development opportunities and career progression. The shift pattern is 8 days per fortnight totalling 75 hours. This will include regular weekend and Bank Holiday working. The earliest shift time could be 0800hrs with a finish time of approximately 1800hrs. On a late shift you could start at 1130hrs and finish around 2130hrs. As this is an area role, you will be travelling regularly across the area but you will be based at the team nearest to your home address; this will be agreed at interview. Main duties of the job Using your clinical experience and knowledge, you will lead your team to ensure both the safety of our donors and the supply of safe blood products to patients. Your responsibilities will include: Overseeing the clinical assessment of donor eligibility and leading on all aspects of donor care. Accountability for the effective delivery of both operational and clinical standards of care and donor experience Leading and promoting the behaviours required to deliver an excellent donation experience, ensuring high donor satisfaction and retention. Training your team, with support, to ensure both your own and their competence is maintained. Efficient management of blood donor sessions, maximising productivity as well as maintaining standards of care and donor satisfaction. Making sure your NMC Revalidation delivers improvements in practice. You will be required to work variable hours in order to lead at different blood collection sessions across a defined geographical area, which will include working evenings, weekends, overnight stays when required and bank holidays (appropriate notice will be given). Night shifts are not required in this role About You Experience and Knowledge Demonstrates clinical leadership and understands the principles of best practice, delivering a high quality of care Experience of initiating and supporting the professional development of others, providing coaching and mentoring Knowledge of clinical audit and research Experience of working to organisational targets would be desirable Experience of supporting service delivery improvement and change in practice would be desirable Knowledge of patient safety initiatives and risk management Experience of working with Information Technology such as hand-held devices and Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) Qualifications and Training Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse Adult Required to maintain registration, adhering to requirements of revalidation Evidence of continuous professional development Possession of a valid driving licence allowing you to drive in the UK Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process. About Us At NHS Blood and Transplant, we re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers. It s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Tuesday 1st July 2025. Interviews are anticipated to be held on w/c 7th July subject to confirmation For informal enquiries please contact - Judy McCabe (Senior Sister/ Senior Charge Nurse) at Judy.mccabe@nhsbt.nhs.uk Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification. Please also view the benefits information sheet which details the benefits of working for NHSBT and the hours of work, salary, leave entitlement etc. for this role.