Consultant in Donor Medicine

As a Consultant in Donor Medicine at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you will help keep donors safe and well while supporting the NHS to deliver the right blood and blood products to patients when they need them.

Main duties of the job

You will lead clinical decision-making on donor suitability and follow-up, provide expert advice to colleagues and clinicians, and shape national policy through clinical governance, audit, teaching and research. Working across sites and teams, you will influence how we improve donor selection, manage adverse events and strengthen the quality of our services. This is a rare opportunity to combine clinical leadership with a clear, national impact on donor and patient outcomes.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll 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. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full and Specialist or General Practice registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview).

Experience

• Training and experience equivalent to that required for entry to the specialist register.
• Broad knowledge of general medicine.
• Wide experience in general medical specialties or general practice.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.