# Administration Assistant Transfusion Practitioner Blood Transfusion

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Worthing
- **Region:** South East
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 Per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** 12 months (fixed term)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T10:12:35.406Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Sussex/East_Grinstead/University_Hospitals_Sussex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Blood_Transfusion/Blood_Transfusion-v8174073
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8174073?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking Blood Transfusion team at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust as a Administration assistant Transfusion Practitioner. Based at QVH and working closely with the Blood Transfusion laboratory at Princess Royal Hospital - Haywards Heath.  On occasions, you will be required to travel across sites, as dictated to by the needs of the service. You will work in the Blood Transfusion department gaining key experiences.

The ability to communicate and work well under pressure is essential. IT skills including data input skills are an integral part of the role.

We offer a supportive environment, excellent development opportunities, and access to well-equipped labs.

Help shape the future of diagnostics at UHSussex — where innovation, learning, and community thrive.

### Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team in the UHSx Blood Transfusion Department performing a wide range of  routine and non-routine clinical, scientific or technical procedures as an appropriately regulated practitioner

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

Once trained you will be expected to;

- work to standards dictated to by Good Manufacturing practice, (GMP) and UKAS 15181 and 17025.
- use all available IT, and LIMS
- answer the phone and handle clinical enquirers passing to more senior staff as required,
- maintain the day to day operation of the department by performing preventative routine daily and weekly maintenance, cleaning equipment, running Quality Assurance, partaking in External Quality Assurance, and re validating (re verification) of equipment once repaired or after Engineer preventative maintenance.
- monitoring stock levels across sites,
- maintaining a clean and tidy department as described to by GMP.
- Accepting deliveries
- Arranging for transfer of items and confirmation of send/receipt across sites.
- maintaining your training records
- monitoring temperatures of our monitored and temperature controlled equipment and department area’s by using Tutela and local procedures.
- reporting all Non-conformance on our Quality Management System using Q Pulse.

Please see job description & person specs for full details

## Person Specification

### Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

**Essential**

- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.

### Selection from application form

**Essential**

- Previous experience of a Medical Laboratory Assistant or Scientific background
- Previous administration experience
- Experience and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
- Qualifications equivalent to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent training and experience
- Work to Good Manufacturing Practice
- Evidence of working for the NHS

**Desirable**

- Experience using QPulse
- Knowledge of the Trusts PAS system (Careflow)
- Previous experience in Pathology and the NHS.
- Previous experience of a Medical Laboratory Assistant in Blood Transfusion
- Experience using relevant laboratory instrumentation employed within the department.

## Documents

- [all staff networks about us flyer (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2583)
- [assistant transfusion practitioner (pdf, 520.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10476639)
- [guide to completing an application form (pdf, 385.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2915)

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