Organ Lead CLU - Liver
Job Summary
The liver Lead CLU will provide clinical leadership for the liver transplant community, championing and promoting the values of organ utilisation and delivering the Liver Offer Review Scheme.
You will be expected to establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders across the Organ Utilisation community, being an advocate and voice of challenge. You will seek to understand and influence the relationships between organ donation and organ acceptance, liaising with colleagues in Organ Donation, as well as National Organ Retrieval Service NORS and transplant collaboratives, identifying opportunities for collaboration. You will be a key member of the Organ Utilisation Development Team (OUDT)
Role requirements include Identifying and prioritising projects, with the ability to optimise utilisation potential by minimising missed transplant opportunities. Identifying barriers to increased organ utilisation, both within liver transplantation and more widely, and the benefits of projects already undertaken will inform further interventions.
You will work with Local Liver CLUs to increase Organ Utilisation, and you will be required to provide support and guidance to them as appropriate.
Key Relationships
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NHS Blood and Transplant Clinical Team
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Associate Medical Director for Organ Utilisation
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NHSBT National Organ Utilisation Lead for Abdominal transplantation
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OUDT members
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NHSBT Medical Director
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Relevant NHSBT Advisory Group Chair(s)
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Local CLUs
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Other Organ Specific Lead CLUs
Colleagues in Organ Donation, National Organ Retrieval Service, Transplant Collaboratives
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Main duties of the job
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Support and develop regular community meetings with local CLUs
- Attendance at NHSBT meetings for Organ Lead CLUs
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Development of action plans for your organ specialty
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Submission of final report to NHSBT Associate Medical Director for Organ Utilisation (evaluation of steps taken and priorities for longer term change)
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Deliver Offer Review Scheme
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Additional activities
- Triage and assure correspondence in respect of role and utilisation issues as required.
- Leadership and support for ensuring that Local CLUs have appropriate plans and policies in place, developed in line with national policy and guidelines.
- Report organ-specific utilisation performance information.
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Monthly contact with areas of responsibility.
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Review of any policies.
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Clinical Expertise / Advice
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Source of knowledge regarding organ utilisation and provide advice as required.
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Escalate via NHSBT Clinical Governance structures any critical incident or ‘near-miss’ relating to organ utilisation practice for your specific organ type.
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Consider any Missed Utilisation Opportunities
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Investigate and prioritise opportunities to improve utilisation of your specialist organ type.
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Challenge colleagues and barriers as required to eliminate missed opportunities.
- Promotion e.g., national promotion activities, international transplant community events
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Act as a spokesperson/ advocate for utilisation as required.
- Academic e.g., research / publications, presentations at regional / national / international meetings
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Other activities to champion Organ Utilisation as per personal interest
About You
Experience and Knowledge
- A medical qualification and experience of working at consultant level in transplant medicine or surgery.
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Knowledge and experience of deceased organ transplantation.
- Understanding of current national policy and guidelines relevant to organ utilisation.
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Evidence of experience in working positively and effectively with NHS staff at all levels and the ability to lead and work within a multi-professional team.
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Ability to inspire and energise colleagues.
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Personal commitment to ensuring National Strategy recommendations and national guidelines are implemented and functioning at the national level and preparing the service for increases in transplantation anticipated as a result of Opt Out legislation and other initiatives, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Personal commitment to minimising missed opportunities in transplantation in one’s own hospital
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Personal commitment to identifying areas of opportunity for delivering improvements and successfully implementing change
Please view the attached role profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.
By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on 21/07/2026
Interviews are anticipated to be held Wednesday 29th July 2026
For informal enquiries please contact Nick Inston , NHSBT National Organ Utilisation Lead for Abdominal transplantation at [email protected]. Or for more general recruitment enquiries contact [email protected]
