Job Description
Job Summary
The Lung Lead CLU will provide clinical leadership for the kidney transplant community, championing and promoting the values of organ utilisation and delivering the Lung 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 lung transplantation and more widely, and the benefits of projects already undertaken will inform further interventions.
You will work with Local CLUs to increase Organ Utilisation, and you will be required to provide support and guidance to them as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
- Support and develop regular community meetings with local CLUs
- Attendance at NHSBT meetings for Organ Lead CLUs
- Development of action plans for your organ specialty
- Submission of final report to NHSBT Associate Medical Director for Organ Utilisation (evaluation of steps taken and priorities for longer term change)
- Deliver Offer Review Scheme
- Additional activities include providing triage and assure correspondence in respect of role and utilisation issues as required.
About You
Experience and Knowledge
- A medical qualification and experience of working at consultant level in transplant medicine or surgery.
- Knowledge and experience of deceased organ donation and transplantation.
- Understanding of current national policy and guidelines relevant to organ utilisation.
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
At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.
It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.
Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Sunday 8th February 2026.
Interviews are anticipated to be held Wednesday 25th February 2026.
For informal enquiries please contact – Vicky Gerovasi on Vasiliki.grovasili@nhs.net. Or for more general recruitment enquiries contact OrganUtilisationDevelopmentTeam@nhsbt.nhs.uk.
