Specialist Nurse Organ Donation

Description:

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.

Main duties of the job

You will play a key role in saving and improving lives through being 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. You will have the opportunity to help patients and families and unite team to deliver life-saving services.

Your Responsibilities Will Include
 

• Using your clinical skills and experience to ensure the safety of our donors and recipients.
• Coordinating the theatre process to ensure a safe and effective retrieval of organs and tissues.
• Responding to referring hospitals to provide advice, information and support.
• Undertaking patient assessment and screening to identify potential donors.
• Communicating with hospital colleagues to facilitate the organ donation conversation with families.
• Advising on interventions in the appropriate clinical management of the potential donor.
• Developing key relationships with hospital colleagues to ensure that no opportunity for donation is missed.
• Acting as an Ambassador to promote organ donation.
  
   

About You

Experience and Knowledge
 

• Have experience of a specialist healthcare environment working with families of those who have suffered a bereavement.
• Demonstrate experience of using Microsoft Office packages and iOS to prepare documents, deliver presentations and communicate.
• Have experience of leadership or be willing to develop this skill.
• Have experience in an acute hospital setting or end of life care.
• Post registration clinical experience to families of patients who are critically ill, via nursing in critical care, ICU or emergency department.
  
   

Qualifications And Training
 

• Be a Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration; RN1 Adult Nurse level 1, RNA Adult Nurse level 1, RN8 Children’s Nurse level 1 or RNC Children’s Nurse level 1 (which must be maintained)
• Hold a relevant nursing qualification OR equivalent job-related experience
• Demonstrate commitment to own Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Possession of a valid driving licence, allowing you to drive the UK
  
   

About Us

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.