Job Overview
Come and join our Events team, who are involved in recruiting new blood donors at a variety of events, including shopping centres and workplaces. You will be required to work on an as‑and‑when basis, with variable hours and days, including weekdays, evenings, weekends and bank holidays with mutual agreement and prior notice.
You dont need a medical background; we just need you to have experience of working in a customer service environment, which can include a voluntary capacity. You will set up and run Whats Your Blood Type? events where you will perform blood typing testing for which training will be provided. It is best if you live within about 15 miles of where the events happen, since things can move quickly and you might need to travel at short notice (we will always give you a heads‑up).
Some events happen on weekends, so you will need to be available occasionally but it isn’t every weekend. We do offer extra pay for weekend shifts, and we will cover your travel costs based on our policy.
Responsibilities
* Collecting event equipment and manually setting up suitable spaces to run the event.
* Performing blood sampling (finger prick test) on members of the public in accordance with our procedures to produce a provisional blood group type for demonstration purposes only.
* Offering information to members of the public on donation in general and specifically in relation to their provisional blood type.
* Providing reports to line manager on numbers of people seen and signed up as donors to continually monitor effectiveness of events.
* Packing away all equipment and returning this to base for safe disposal of sharps and clinical waste.
* Receiving training in basic first aid to enable you to respond in cases of adverse reactions.
* Loading, unloading, assembling and dismantling equipment on a daily basis, including heavy objects of up to 13 kgs.
About NHS Blood and Transplant
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you will 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 donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our core values are caring, expert and quality, and together we aim to create an inclusive workplace and reflect these values in everything we do.
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