As National Contract Manager, you will help NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) deliver safe, effective and high-quality facilities services that support our life-saving work across the UK.
\nYou will lead the management and improvement of national facilities management contracts, working with suppliers, colleagues and senior stakeholders to ensure services are compliant, cost-effective and meet the needs of our people and sites.
\nUsing your expertise, you will drive performance, manage risk and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
\nYou will also play a key role in shaping and implementing future service contracts, helping NHSBT deliver lasting improvements for colleagues, donors and patients.
\nThis is an opportunity to contribute to a meaningful purpose, influence national services and continue to develop your expertise while supporting our commitment to being Caring, Expert and Quality in everything we do.
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\nAre you a Digital Developer looking to apply your skills in a role that truly makes a difference? NHS Blood and Transplant has an exciting opportunity for Senior Digital Developer to join our in-house development team in a supportive, inclusive environment where innovation and collaboration are valued.
\nThis role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies, contributing to systems that support organ and tissue donation and transplantation across the UK. You will help modernise legacy systems, manage servers both on-premises and in Azure cloud and contribute to DevOps practices. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, values teamwork and is passionate about building impactful technology.
\nWith flexible hybrid working and a culture that champions diversity, learning and personal growth, this is a meaningful career opportunity for developers who want to build systems that matter.
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\nAs a Senior Digital Developer, you will develop and deploy world-class Digital services, application software and database services according to NHSBT corporate business plan using the most appropriate tools and technologies from those approved by the Head of OTDT Product Centre. Your responsibilities will include:
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\nAs a Digital Developer working within the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Product Centre (OTDT PC) at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), you will use your technical expertise to develop and improve digital services that support our vital work.
\nWorking across the full software development lifecycle, you will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and support applications and databases used across NHSBT. You will tackle complex technical challenges, work with colleagues to understand their needs, and turn those needs into effective digital solutions. The focus of this role is on cloud technologies. Our primary software is Azure, so an understanding of DevOps, Storage, API Manager, App Services, Key Vaults and log analysis is preferable.
\nYou will also explore new technologies, share your expertise with colleagues, and help integrate new solutions with existing systems. This is an opportunity to contribute your technical skills to meaningful work, while continuing to learn, innovate, and develop within a specialist digital environment.
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\nAt NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we provide a service that is unique, we help our donors do something extraordinary to save or enhance a life in need. You too can join us and play your part in our life-saving organisation.
\nJoin our dedicated team in NHSBT organ donation and transplantation (ODT). You'll be part of a programme team at the forefront of organ transplantation transformation, ultimately saving and improving lives. The establishment of a national Assessment and Recovery Centre (ARC) service will extend equitable access to life-saving products and treatments to everyone that needs them, helping to bridge the gap between shortage of organs available and demand.
\nAs a service designer at NHSBT, you directly impact how we understand and design for the needs of our donors, families, the patients we serve, and our people, who deliver and operate services. This is critical to our mission to save and improve lives.
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\nAs a Senior Service Designer, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team to deliver services for donors at NHSBT. You will design the end-to-end journey which helps the user to complete their goal. Putting users' needs at the heart of your work, you will make people's interactions with NHBST as simple and quick as possible.
\nIn this role, your work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by NHSBT. You will be a confident and competent designer who is able to develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes. Your role responsibilities will also include:
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\nThis post, which commences in August 2027, is for haematology specialty trainees or haematology specialty (locally employed) doctors working in the UK at Specialist Training Level 5 (ST5) or above, who want to pursue a career in Transfusion Medicine.
\nYou will be part of a national team working to deliver blood and blood components to patients in hospitals in England.
\nYou will be directly accountable to the Consultant Haematologist Educational Supervisor at NHSBT who will be the consultant working in the centre where you are based.
\nThis is a national vacancy, the successful candidate may be based at any of the following main centres in the UK, final location to be agreed at interview - Leeds/Barnsley, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, London or Oxford.
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\nThere will be a combination of daytime duty work and longer term quality improvement and project work. Duty work will involve taking queries from within the organisation and NHS Trusts, giving clinical advice to inform decisions around individual patients and components. All clinical work will be supervised by a named consultant.
\nYou will be expected to submit at least one project as a conference abstract and/or to a peer reviewed journal. As part of the role, you will deliver teaching to doctors, nurses, biomedical and clinical scientists.
\nYou will acquire subspecialty skills and experience in: Components, Donor Medicine, Red Cell Immunohaematology, Patient Blood Management (PBM).
\nYou will acquire further knowledge of: Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Manufacturing and Logistics, Cell, Apheresis and Gene Therapies, Haemovigilance, Research, Audit and Quality Improvement.
\nYou will be supported in pursuing an honorary contract with the Trust to enable you acquire skills in hospital-based transfusion practice (participation in hospital transfusion team meetings etc.).
\nAbout us
\nAt 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.
\nOur 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.
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