NORS Perioperative Practitioner

Job overview

The Oxford Transplant Centre currently provides kidney, pancreas, intestinal, uterus and islet cell transplant services and other surgery to support patients at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH). Our pancreas transplant programme is the most active in Europe. We are the only centre in the UK performing uterus transplantation for women with uterine factor infertility.

The Oxford Abdominal Organ Retrieval Team is one of teams in the UK commissioned to take part in the National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS). Currently, the team is operational three out of four weeks.

NORS is a key component of the Organ Donation and Transplantation infrastructure by providing a national -hour service for retrieving organs from deceased donors. NORS teams are made up of highly skilled healthcare professionals led by a senior surgeon.

The NORS teams are supported by healthcare professionals fully competent ...