Job overview

We would like to encourage applicants to apply for the role of Staff Grade Perfusionist at UHBW.

The University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Perfusion Department is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual to join our department to help provide clinical and professional perfusion services to the multi-disciplinary team at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Children's Hospital.  

Applicants should be well-organised with a keen interest in teaching and research. You must posses the Accreditation Certificate of the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of Great Britain & Ireland and should be a Licentiate Members of the College of Clinical Perfusion Scientists of Great Britain & Ireland.

Paediatric and ECMO experience are desirable but not essential.

Working hours are 37.5 hours per week over 4 days with additional on call commitment.

Main duties of the job

• Take, with appropriate delegation, responsibility for the delivery of a highly specialised perfusion service across the Trust, ensuring that the service is effective and well-coordinated.
• To preferably demonstrate specialist skills, knowledge and expertise in both Adult and Paediatric clinical practice of both CPB and ECMO. Paediatric and ECMO experience not essential. Applying these skills to the supervision and training of others throughout the department and the multidisciplinary team.
• Draw on knowledge of a range of theories to inform practice. Assist in developing strategies for the management and delivery of care for the client group.
• Setting up, priming and running bypass equipment for Adult and Paediatric cardiac surgery procedures, according to the perfusion procedures and protocols and to play a full role in the routine cardiac surgical programme.
• Ensure quality control, calibration and maintenance of expensive and complex medical equipment, ensuring accurate and safe use during clinical procedures.
• To administer drugs, according to local policy and as necessitated by the clinical situation i.e. priming solutions, anticoagulants, inhalational anaesthetic agents, potassium, and cardioplegic solution.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.