Transfusion Support Officer

at  Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Transfusion Support Officer to join our small Transfusion Practitioner Team to cover maternity leave until the 31st October 2025. Working 3 days (22.5 hours) a week 9am to 5.15pm.
The role is pivotal in supporting the three Transfusion Practitioners across the Trust, ensuring that staff are thoroughly trained and competency assessed for administering blood transfusions. The team is dedicated to performing audits, accurately documenting transfusions, investigating and reporting incidents, and handling a variety of other critical tasks.
The Support Office plays a crucial role in ensuring these responsibilities are met efficiently. This includes taking detailed notes and minutes during both formal and informal meetings, addressing transfusion-related queries via phone, and managing data to produce comprehensive reports for various areas of the Trust.
This position is essential for maintaining high standards of patient care and safety, making it a rewarding and impactful role within the healthcare team.
For full information on the role of a Transfusion Support Officer, please see the attached job description.
You must have excellent attention to detail and good communication skills.
Having excellent IT skills are essential to the role, experience in minute taking would be an advantage.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
One of the days must be a Wednesday, but the other two days are negotiable. There is no remote working in this role and you will be working on site at Kings Mill Hospital in the Pathology department.
We will consider a fixed term contract or secondment

Please refer the Job description for details