Clinical Assistant

**Job Title/ Designation**: Clinical Assistant (Transfusion Medicine)
**Department**:Laboratory Medicine
**Location**: Mumbai
**Essential Qualification**: MD (Pathology/IHBT) or DNB (Pathology/IHBT), MBBS with relevant TM experience
**Additional Qualification**: Fellowship in relevant field
**Experience**: Fresher to 5 years experience

**For more details Contact : 9699187287**

** Job Description**:
**1) Administration, oversight and coordination**

a) overall supervision
b) inventory management
c) fulfilling regulatory requirements
d) records and reporting
e) preparing data for hospital transfusion committee meetings
f) fulfilling CME program requirements
g) plan appropriate training programs and execute the same
h) provide consultation to supervisory and technical personnel on maintaining adequate inventory of all blood components
i) in times of limited inventory, provide interface to attending physician and resident staffs on request for those components in short supply
j) evaluate functions of blood bank periodically that is daily /weekly/monthly basis

**2) Donor Management**

a) Perform routine donor evaluation and monitoring including physical examinations and phlebotomy site examination and review of periodic laboratory testing
b) Provide consultation to blood bank technical and medical social worker concerning donor selection and acceptability
c) Evaluate and mange blood donor reactions
d) Evaluate and follow up donor with abnormal test results, including infectious disease testing
e) Evaluation and approval of requests for specific components from specific donors
f) Selection of donors for specific patients
g) Evaluation of donor acceptability
h) Donor monitoring

**3) Camp Management**

a) medical officer should check the following:
Exact venue, number of donor, time for camp, refreshment for donor, furniture, space, mobile vans, appliances for collection and transportation of blood and emergency kit.
b) record and report the details about the blood camp to the consultant TM

**4) Testing (IH/ID)**
a) Provide consultation and support to technical and clerical staff concerning specimen and requisition acceptability.
b) Review and interpret:
i) blood typing discrepancies
ii) Positive antibody screening
iii) Antibody panels: prenatal titers

iv)Positive direct/indirect anti
- globulin tests

c) provide consultation to technical staff concerning additional evaluation of patients with complex serological problems
d) Review clinical significance of serological findings and decide on additional testing required prior to transfusion.

**5) Component Management**
a) provide consultation to apheresis nursing and technical staff concerning donor selection and acceptability
b) evaluate and manage apheresis donor reaction
c) provide medical direction for components collection via cell separator
d) evaluate and approve request for selected and specialized blood components, including washed red cells and apheresis derived platelets

**6) QMS/QA**
a) Assist with developing, implementing and maintaining the quality assurance with respect to
i) Organization
ii) Personnel
iii) Technical
iv) Document control
v) Infrastructure management
vi) Equipments
vii) QA
viii) Audits
b) Perform the initial review of the quality control records with the quality manager
c) Ensure staff and departmental compliance with all regulatory, safety and institution policies and procedures
d) Ensure that all work is done according to the required standards
e) Ensure the SOP is followed at all critical steps of process flow like donor screening, phlebotomy site cleaning, phlebotomy, temperature maintenance during blood transport etc.

**7) Training**
a) Plan for training at different levels of staff 4
b) Competency management/assessment
c) Plan and help in conduction of the refresher and regular training programs of the staff in the blood bank
d) Help in evaluating the knowledge of the new staff and arrange for the training programs

**8) Clinical service**
a) Provide consultation to clinical staff concerning selection and acceptability of donor for autologous transfusion/autologous and allogenic BMT/Granulocytes/Lymphocytes/BMH,etc.
b) Consult with the attending physician and resident staff as necessary

c) Determine risk of transfusion in: patients with complex serological problems and patients who require transfusion before routine serological testing can be completed. Provide consultation to attending physician and resident staff as indicated

d) Review initial workup of all transfusion reactions reported to blood centre.

e) Determine additional evaluation required and prepare a written interpretation for review and discussion with the in-charge blood bank and provide consultation to attending physician and resident staff as indicated

g) Obtain informed consent for therapeutic apheresis from patients

h) Schedule therapeutic apheresis procedure with apheresis personnel/company engineer

i) Complete therapeutic apheresis worksheets an