Associate Transfusion Practitioner

Associate Transfusion Practitioner

The closing date is 27 April 2026

We are recruiting for an Associate Transfusion Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Blood Transfusion is highly regulated to ensure patient safety and that all blood products are used according to national regulations. The transfusion practitioner team acts as an interface between the laboratory and clinical staff at all levels to ensure processes are followed and that the clinical areas are aware of the requirements to ensure safe transfusions.

The post holder will work alongside the transfusion practitioners as part of the Hospital Transfusion Team to support the Trust in keeping patients safe and ensuring that regulations and guidelines are followed.

The work is varied and hence a flexible approach and a willingness to learn would be ideal attributes in a candidate.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Transfusion Practitioner (ATP) will assist the Transfusion Practitioners (TPs) in facilitating safe practice in blood transfusion, preventing blood wastage and auditing blood transfusion processes within the Trust.

The transfusion department must have full traceability of all blood products that come in to the department and the ATP will have responsibility for supporting the laboratory with this task.

The post holder will assist in the delivery of transfusion training and competency assessments and the development of guidelines and policies.

Transfusion incidents need full investigation and documentation including Root Cause Analysis and Corrective and Preventive Actions and the post holder will be trained to support the TPs in these processes and the ongoing reporting externally.

Job responsibilities Person Specification Qualifications / Training

• Qualified nurse or degree in biomedical (or related) science or equivalent relevant experience

Previous Experience

• NHS or Hospital based experience
• Have worked in an area where transfusions have been given or in a blood transfusion laboratory
• Production of educational or similar material
• Experience of teaching or assessing others
• Experience or knowledge of SHOT and SABRE reporting or incident investigation

Skills

• Basic IT skills - ability to learn and advance
• Adaptable and resilient
• Presentation Skills
• Team player

Knowledge

• Blood transfusion
• Confidentiality

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Include - compassion, equity, opportunity
• Respect - listening, kind, safe
• Improve - effective, continuous and empowered

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.

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum pro rata