Senior Clinical Perfusionist inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED 28 MAY 2024

Job summary

The Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated team player to join the perfusion team. The perfusion department performs 300-400 paediatric bypass cases per year operating on a variety of congenital heart defects.

A complex procedural program with complex Pulmonary Atresia patients providing a large variety of challenging procedures. The department also provides support for the hospital's commissioned ECLS service. We are enthusiastic about personal development, career progression, research and teaching, so paediatric experience is desirable however training will be given. Dependent on your experience, skills and knowledge, this role is offered at a Band 8b. A pro rata Recruitment and Retention Premium (RRP) will be offered for £2500 divided over 12 months and an additional payment of £2500 after your first year.

This is an excellent opportunity to expand your skills by joining a team in an exciting and challenging surgical environment.

Main duties of the job

These applicants must be fully accredited and registered with the College of Clinical Perfusionists of GB and Ireland.

The working week is 37.5 hours over 4 days with an essential on-call commitment.

Please see attached JD & PS for detailed information.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Occupational health/enhanced DBS clearance required.
• To be self-motivated, a role model and be able to support and lead others.
• Approachable and enthusiastic
• High levels of organizational skills, time management and an ability to lead others.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Effective information technology skills, including advanced keyboard skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and various hospital and perfusion databases and applications

Qualifications

Essential

• MSc in Perfusion, or equivalent
• Professional clinical registration with the College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of GB and Ireland
• Accredited by the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of GB and Ireland
• Evidence of continual professional development

Knowledge and Nature of Experience

Essential

• Postgraduate knowledge of routine and highly specialised techniques
• Evidence of policy and/or protocol development and post incident reporting
• Maintenance of skills through further training
• Deliver specialist training and provide support, motivation and education for trainee and junior members of clinical perfusion to ensure learning outcomes are met.
• Research experience and demonstrate an aptitude for presentation and publications
• Lead in multi-disciplinary team presentations of perfusion department audit

Desirable

• Familiar with a wide range of paediatric routine and highly specialist clinical perfusion techniques
• Completed an approved ECLS/ECMO training course

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• -Ability to work efficiently and effectively in stressful or emotive highly complex situations for prolonged periods maintaining intense levels of concentration.
• -Ability to lead in planning and providing cardiopulmonary bypass or extracorporeal circulatory life support to a broad range of different specialties, such as hepatology, respiratory or renal. Ability to adapt plans in time critical life dependent situations.
• -Accountability for professional actions
• -Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment
• -Attention to detail and accuracy

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent and robust interpersonal and communication skills
• Advanced communication skills- able to convey highly complex and detailed information effectively and clearly to colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team. This is essential during cardio-pulmonary life support in theatre and emergency extra-corporeal life support in theatre, catheter labs or PICU.
• Take part in on-call rota to allow cover service 24/7
• Accountability to prioritise own workload appropriately and meet deadlines under pressure
• Ability and willingness to accept additional responsibilities
• Ability to work as an independent autonomous practitioner as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Lead in the production of staff rotas
• Ordering of high cost consumables utilising the electronic ordering database
• Signing off high-cost consumables utilising the electronic ordering database and signing off petty cash.
• Coordinating with external departments and agencies to provide specialist equipment, including hardware, disposables, grafts and valves.
• Lead in the development of departmental policies and protocols specific to perfusion
• Lead in the development of Extracorporeal Life Support policies and protocols
• Compliance of core mandatory and essential training
• Ability to train junior perfusion staff and teach other professionals highly complex procedures.
• Supervising the development of trainee Perfusionist's research for their MSc.
• Maintenance of professional status

Person Specification
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Occupational health/enhanced DBS clearance required.
• To be self-motivated, a role model and be able to support and lead others.
• Approachable and enthusiastic
• High levels of organizational skills, time management and an ability to lead others.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Effective information technology skills, including advanced keyboard skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and various hospital and perfusion databases and applications

Qualifications

Essential

• MSc in Perfusion, or equivalent
• Professional clinical registration with the College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of GB and Ireland
• Accredited by the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of GB and Ireland
• Evidence of continual professional development

Knowledge and Nature of Experience

Essential

• Postgraduate knowledge of routine and highly specialised techniques
• Evidence of policy and/or protocol development and post incident reporting
• Maintenance of skills through further training
• Deliver specialist training and provide support, motivation and education for trainee and junior members of clinical perfusion to ensure learning outcomes are met.
• Research experience and demonstrate an aptitude for presentation and publications
• Lead in multi-disciplinary team presentations of perfusion department audit

Desirable

• Familiar with a wide range of paediatric routine and highly specialist clinical perfusion techniques
• Completed an approved ECLS/ECMO training course

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• -Ability to work efficiently and effectively in stressful or emotive highly complex situations for prolonged periods maintaining intense levels of concentration.
• -Ability to lead in planning and providing cardiopulmonary bypass or extracorporeal circulatory life support to a broad range of different specialties, such as hepatology, respiratory or renal. Ability to adapt plans in time critical life dependent situations.
• -Accountability for professional actions
• -Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment
• -Attention to detail and accuracy

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent and robust interpersonal and communication skills
• Advanced communication skills- able to convey highly complex and detailed information effectively and clearly to colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team. This is essential during cardio-pulmonary life support in theatre and emergency extra-corporeal life support in theatre, catheter labs or PICU.
• Take part in on-call rota to allow cover service 24/7
• Accountability to prioritise own workload appropriately and meet deadlines under pressure
• Ability and willingness to accept additional responsibilities
• Ability to work as an independent autonomous practitioner as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Lead in the production of staff rotas
• Ordering of high cost consumables utilising the electronic ordering database
• Signing off high-cost consumables utilising the electronic ordering database and signing off petty cash.
• Coordinating with external departments and agencies to provide specialist equipment, including hardware, disposables, grafts and valves.
• Lead in the development of departmental policies and protocols specific to perfusion
• Lead in the development of Extracorporeal Life Support policies and protocols
• Compliance of core mandatory and essential training
• Ability to train junior perfusion staff and teach other professionals highly complex procedures.
• Supervising the development of trainee Perfusionist's research for their MSc.
• Maintenance of professional status

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.
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Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH

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