Staff Grade Perfusionist

Main area Perfusion Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 13 months (approximate start date 01/11/2025) Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 387-S8474-NG

Site Bristol Heart Institute Town Bristol Salary £55,690 – £62,682 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/08/2025 23:59

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

• Team Player
• Responsible
• Good work ethic
• Calm and patient
• Decisive
• Good Sense of Humour

Experience and knowledge

• Experience of routine adult and paediatric perfusion techniques including paediatric vv and va ECMO
• Experience of clinical devices used within perfusion
• Full knowledge of hazards of bypass and fully equipped to manage emergency situations
• Practicing clinical perfusionist including experience of departmental management issues
• Understanding the capabilities of equipment used
• Up to date with latest developments in clinical practise
• Experience of paediatric and complex GUCH perfusion techniques

Qualifications and Training

• Full accredited by SOPGBI
• Full registration by COPGBI
• Advanced registration by SOPGBI
• MSc Perfusion Science
• Management (CMS/DMS

Skills and Abilities

• Good organisational abilities
• Maintenance of intense levels of concentration in excess of 8-12 hours
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work under own initiative
• Use of reflective practise to inform service
• Able to analyse and use sound judgement in the interpretation of a wealth of clinical information on a moment to moment basis
• Create effective relationships in order to motivate and develop skills of qualified and trainee staff
• Identify external and internal influences on the service to form and develop strategies for the future.
• Computer Literacy

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

· 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 to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support – developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

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