Appointment Brief – Clinical Services, NHSBT

NHS Blood and Transplant Appointments

• Assistant Director - Stem Cells & Therapeutics

• Assistant Director - Diagnostics

• Medical Director – Transfusion

• Medical Director – Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation

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Contents Introduction

The role

The person

Terms of appointment

Next steps

We

Appointment Brief – Clinical Services, NHSBT

Appointment Brief – Clinical Services, NHSBT

Introduction

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is seeking to work with an experienced recruitment agency to secure

these permanent posts reporting into our Chief Medical Officer and are essential to the success of the

newly formed Clinical Services directorate;

• Assistant Director for Stem Cells & Therapeutics

• Assistant Director for Diagnostics

• Medical Director for Transfusion

• Medical Director for Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation

NHSBT is a Special Health Authority dedicated to saving and improving lives. We are an essential part of

the NHS providing a wide range of services making the most of absolutely every donation – from blood and

organs to tissues and stem cells.

NHSBT was formed in 2005 by bringing together the National Blood Service and UK Transplant. It is now

one of the largest and most effective organisations of its type in the world.

We employ over 5,400 people across the UK, with total revenue of over £417 million, delivering blood, and

blood based therapies across England; Diagnostic and Therapeutic services globally; and organ donation

and supply services for the whole of the UK.

We stand for helping ordinary people do something extraordinary, saving and improving the lives of others

with their valuable donations.

To achieve this we:

• collect and process over 1.6 million units of blood and platelets annually to ensure a constant supply of blood to hospitals from 5,500 donors giving blood every day;

• make possible some 9,000 organ and cornea transplants every year;

• retrieve and store other tissues like skin and bone ready for patient use;

• manufacture a range of specialist therapeutic blood products;

• provide a number of related services such as solid organ tissue typing and cord blood banking;

• provide apheresis services directly to patients;

• manage the NHS Organ Donor Register (which currently has nearly 24 million names) and the British Bone Marrow Registry;

• support a significant research and development programme operated in partnership with a number of the UK's leading universities; and

• provide expert advice to other NHS organisations, the Department of Health, Ministers and devolved administrations.

To put this into context, we:

• collect 1.6 million units of blood and platelets every year from a donor base of over 800,000;

• support the donation of 4,035 organs for transplantation, and a registry of over 25m organ

• donors;

• support 5,800 tissue donations;

• bank 1,400 cord blood units;

• register donors to the British Bone Marrow Registry, on which there are 27 million donors worldwide.

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We are immensely proud that our activities support the incredible altruism and generosity of our donors,

bringing together communities across the country. NHSBT engages with millions of people throughout the

country and connects directly with more people on a daily basis than any other single part of the NHS.

To find out more, please click here to go to our website to view videos which explore the journey of donors

Financial performance The board and management of NHSBT, however, monitor and control NHSBT’s financial performance on

an income and expenditure basis, as this is more appropriate to the nature of NHSBT’s activities. On this

basis, NHSBT generated an operating surplus of £12.7 million in 2018/19, with £69.2 million of programme

funding received from the Department of Health and Social Care treated as income.

To view our full annual reports and accounts click here

Our four major targets for the year ahead

• The Blood Supply chain needs further change to drive efficiency and quality while ensuring

sufficient supply of the right blood types to meet patient need.

• The modernisation of NHSBT’s IT systems and the implementation of the new Tech Strategy

• Clinical Services and how we redefine our services to better meet the needs of the NHS in a post

COVID-19 environment

• To make NHSBT a truly diverse and inclusive organisation

To view our full Strategic Plan for 2017-2022 click here

Core values, behaviours and expectations

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The future

As part of the backbone of the NHS, we reach the public at the most critical stages of their lives.

Few organisations have the ability to reach so many, delivering the best possible service to

patients, donors and the NHS. The range of NHSBT’s work providing diagnostic and therapeutic

services, organ donation & transplantation, and blood supply, demands that our operations are

world class, providing a safe, reliable and efficient supply across the UK by working seamlessly

with an unparalleled range of stakeholders including government, volunteers, the health sector and

academia.

The NHS faces substantial demands which puts further pressure on NHSBT to ensure that our

service is as efficient as possible while working closely with partner organisations experiencing

substantial strain on their staff numbers, facilities and finances. As pressure on these services

continues, we must ensure our services maintain efficiency while always focusing on future

innovation. NHSBT must work at the forefront of volunteer engagement, keeping pace with digital

advancements will be critical for the organisation as we seek to remain close to and diversify our

donor base, without whom we would not exist. More work remains to ensure that we find

innovative ways to work with the public and providers to continuously improve services.

The new operating model in NHSBT is designed on an agreed set of design principles:

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The roles

These are new roles reporting to the Chief Medical Officer and are strategically important to the future

direction of NHSBT.

As senior leaders these post holders are expected to display the following key behaviours:

• Be highly articulate and credible, consistently influencing and delivering inspiring, engaging and

meaningful information regarding future direction.

• Work collaboratively with your senior team collectively and individually, accepting and owning

accountability for the decisions made and offering assistance where required, even where this falls

outside of your remit.

• Proactively create, leading by example, a culture of continuous improvement and empowerment. This

will manifest itself in positivity about the service we provide and the opportunities it creates.

• Foster strong professional relationships with your peers, respecting their knowledge and viewpoints

whilst critically analysing outcomes to ensure that the service to donors is paramount in decision

making

• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence a robust culture of delivery.

• Recognise when change is required and demonstrate personal ownership for pursuing,

communicating and implementing the change, whilst minimising the motivational impact on others

Key areas of responsibility are:

Assistant Director for Stem Cells & Therapeutics

• Leadership - to lead a motivated team of professional individuals with a high degree of expertise and enable them to work with senior medical colleagues (internally and externally) to deliver and continuously develop services of the highest quality to benefit patients. Direct and be accountable for NHSBT’s Stem Cell and Therapeutics services; Cellular and Molecular Therapies (CMT) including advanced cell and gene therapies, Stem Cell Donation and Transplantation (SCDT) including the British Bone Marrow Registry and the NHS Cord Blood Bank, and Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS).

• Strategic - to foster strategic relationships with key partners and to lead the development of operational strategies which build on NHSBT’s core competencies in order to position NHSBT as the provider of choice for therapeutic services to NHS, academic, commercial and international customers.

• Scientific and Clinical – accountable for continuously developing the scientific workforce in order to provide motivated scientists to work in our stem cell laboratories. To work with medical and academic colleagues to ensure that NHSBT is horizon scanning to position us at the cutting edge of technological innovation and to provide services that are fit for the changes in advanced cellular technology and services in the NHS; to ensure NHSBT derives value by creating, protecting and exploiting specialist knowhow and intellectual property where appropriate. This will ensure the highest standards of safety for the patients we serve.

• Delivery – to deliver strategic and operational outcomes, ensuring patient benefit is maximised, achieving financial sustainability as well as high performance and regulatory compliance. Manage and be accountable for a budget of around £30m per annum. Ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and standards including CQC, HTA and MHRA.

• Business Development – to ensure business development opportunities are soundly assessed across whole of Stem Cells and Therapeutics for both their value and consistency with our organisations mission. Business development strategies are underpinned by robust and targeted launch plans.

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Assistant Director for Diagnostics

• Leadership - to lead a motivated team of individuals with a high degree of expertise and enable them to work with senior medical colleagues to deliver and continuously develop services of the highest quality to benefit patients.

• Strategic - to foster strategic relationships with key partners and to lead the development of operational strategies which build on NHSBT’s core competencies in order to position NHSBT as the provider of choice for diagnostic services to NHS, academic, commercial and international customers. Lead the development of strategic plans to ensure NHS patients derive maximum benefit from NHSBT’s diagnostic services

• Scientific and Clinical – to work with the Chief Scientific Officer to continuously develop the scientific workforce in order to provide motivated scientists to work in our diagnostic laboratories. To work with medical and academic colleagues to ensure that NHSBT is horizon scanning to position us at the cutting edge of technological innovation and to provide services that are fit for the changes in genomic technology and services in the NHS; to ensure NHSBT derives value by creating, protecting and exploiting specialist knowhow and intellectual property where appropriate. Possess extensive knowledge of the development and delivery of diagnostic services relevant to transfusion and transplant therapies.

• Delivery – to deliver strategic and operational outcomes, ensuring patient benefit is maximised, achieving financial sustainability as well as high performance and regulatory compliance. Financial sustainability as well as high performance and regulatory compliance. Manage and be accountable for a budget of around £35m per annum.

• Business Development – to ensure business development opportunities are soundly assessed across whole of Diagnostics for both their value and consistency with our organisations mission. Business development strategies are underpinned by robust and targeted launch plan. Direct and be accountable for NHSBT’s diagnostic services; Red Cell Immunohematology, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory and our reference Microbiology Service Laboratories. Ensure a coherent and holistic service offering is easily accessed by different medical disciplines

Essential Criteria are:

Assistant Director for Stem Cells & Therapeutics

Assistant Director for Diagnostics

Education/Qualifications

• Post graduate management qualification to Masters Level

• Degree at Masters Level or equivalent relevant experience to Masters level

• Broad understanding of the NHS and the wider healthcare community.

• Evidence of continuing professional development. Experience

• Extensive operations management experience at a senior level within a blood service,

pharmaceutical or similar environment across a multi-site base

• Experience of operating within Good Manufacturing Processes, Standard Operating Procedures,

Improvement Techniques and Inspection regimes.

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• Experience of strategic management and planning.

• Experience of working in a continuous improvement culture including the provision of value for

money and service development

• Experience of delivering through people in terms of leading, developing and influencing others,

evidence of significant people management skills and involvement with staff negotiations

Personal

• Commitment to NHS values

• Intellectual flexibility – the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity

• Insight and personal resilience

• Able to travel regularly throughout England and Wales as required with some overnight travel. Some international travel

Terms of the above appointments are:

Salary: up to £104,927

Tenure: permanent

Location: national appointments

Medical Director for Transfusion

Key areas of responsibility are:

This post will provide medical leadership to the process of modernising diagnostic and therapeutic services

to meet the changing requirements of 21st century blood product testing and provision. Remit will include

diagnostic testing, production and provision of blood and associated products and specialist testing

particularly in areas of stem cell and cord blood bank products. They will work as part of a partnership team

between clinicians and managers. They will be encouraged and facilitated to develop strong partnership

working within their designated area, across NHSBT as well as the wider NHS. The post-holder will be

professionally and managerially accountable to the Director of Clinical Services and a member of the

Clinical Services Senior Management Team, sharing responsibility for the delivery of the Directorate’s

agreed objectives.

The post holder will be a doctor with substantial clinical and management experience as a consultant or

senior GP who is also a successful and confident medical leader. They will have a track record of working

successfully with doctors and nurses and advancing their clinical role within multidisciplinary teams. He or

she will have a talent for strategic thinking and the ability to focus on key objectives. Team building and

good communication skills and the ability to develop and motivate colleagues will be particularly important

in this post.

The successful candidate must be fully registered with a licence to practice with the General Medical

Council and be on the GMC Specialist Register. Required qualifications will be those needed to enter the

relevant area of the Specialist Register. They must be CCT (or equivalent for non-UK applicants of

equivalent status), or be accredited (of equivalent), and be on, or eligible to be on, the GMC Specialist

Register in the specialty appropriate for the consultant post at the time of taking up the consultant

appointment

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Medical Director for Organ & Tissue Donation & Transplantation

The Medical Director) plays a crucial role in providing strong medical leadership across the entire organ

donation and transplantation pathway, working within NHSBT and with external partners. The post carries

a broad remit, including:

• Clinical leadership to support the development and delivery of strategy and policy for organ

donation and transplantation.

• Executive responsibility for clinical policies in line with NHSBT’s responsibilities for selection,

allocation etc.

• Leadership of clinical governance and research.

• Developing influential relationships with donation and transplantation clinicians; four UK health

departments; professional organisations, voluntary sector and patient groups.

• Securing expert advice to support policy development and operational activity.

• Represent NHSBT at a national and international level

The post holder will play a corporate role within the OT-DT Senior Management Team and within the

NHSBT Clinical Services Senior Management Team and provides expert advice to both the Executive

Team and Board.

Responsibilities include:

• Executive responsibility for the development of patient selection, organ allocation and other policies

required by NHSBT’s Directions, seeking advice from the relevant clinical communities and securing

approval from the Board’s Transplant Policy Review Committee.

• Securing clinical and scientific advice to contribute to the development of strategy and policies and

ensuring that there is appropriate clinical advice available to support operational activity at all times.

• Providing leadership for ODT’s clinical governance activities ensuring that lessons learned are

widely disseminated across the donation and transplantation clinical community.

• Providing direction and managing the ODT medical team and other departmental staff, ensuring

effective performance and delivery of agreed objectives.

• Managing budgets for the medical team and other delegated budgetary responsibility,

• Providing leadership for ODT’s research strategy and research programmes with the support of the

appropriate advisory groups and support the delivery of planned benefits from the Blood and

Transplant Research Unit, QUOD and other initiatives.

They should have full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the GMC (or be

eligible for registration within 6 months of interview), be on specialist register for a relevant speciality

e.g. surgery, medicine and have a linked postgraduate qualification

Terms of the above Medical Director appointments

Salary: on the consultant scale as set out in the Terms and Conditions – Consultants (England) 2003.

Tenure: permanent

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Location: national appointments

Next Steps

Interested parties are required by 30th June 2020 to reply to NHSBT at the following email address:

@nhsbt.nhs.uk with their proposal and prices for supporting this search. This should include as a minimum

the following.

• Specify which roles you are responding to

• To submit a proposal for how they intent to support NHSBT to attract the right candidates.

• To provide relevant testimonials and/or references

• To set out their relevant, recent experience in successfully placing Medical Directors and/or

Assistant Director level strategic/operational leaders in similar public sector and/or large scale

national organisations

• To set out their rates for services based on filling one or more roles and separately broken down by

component elements.

• When pricing this opportunity agencies should show how they will incentivise the payment structure.

For example, NHSBT will be expecting the successful agency to agree a pricing structure which has

significant elements of the fee payable only on the successful placement of a candidate and on the

completion of 6 months in position of the successful candidate.

• To set out the expected timetable to source candidates. NHSBT would expect to be able to

commence reviewing CVs and candidates as soon as possible.