Specialist nurse organ donation

Our team oversees organ and tissue donation to maximise donation opportunities to save as many lives as possible through transplantation. We ensure we do our amazing donors justice and give a lifeline to thousands of people every year. We provide support and guidance to patients and families to ensure we deliver a world‑class service.

You will play a key role in saving and improving lives as an ambassador for our services and be a central point for medical teams to help deliver and facilitate a successful organ and tissue donation process. Your responsibilities include:

• Provide support and appropriate information to families of those that are critically ill and acutely bereaved, relating to end‑of‑life choices, specifically to include organ and tissue donation.
• Facilitate and maximise organ and tissue donation working autonomously and collaboratively in various clinical and non‑clinical settings.
• Responsible for system building and working closely with identified individuals to maintain a robust infrastructure to support and maximise donation. This includes analysis, planning, design, implementation, evaluation and continuance of educational and quality assurance programmes with all stakeholders within agreed and defined clinical area.
• Obtain all relevant information enabling transplant centres and tissue establishments to assess the suitability of potential donors. This may include the requirement to negotiate further tests and investigations.

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. 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.