Abu Dhabi, ae · Full-time · Lead · Sales & marketing
Officer - Tissue Bank - SKMC
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Establishment and Operations
- Coordinate the setup, commissioning, and operational readiness of the Homograft Valve Bank.
- Oversee installation, validation, maintenance, and monitoring of all HVB equipment and storage systems.
- Develop workflows to ensure safe and efficient tissue banking operations.
- Support future expansion of tissue banking and transplant-related services.
Tissue Procurement and Processing
- Coordinate donor tissue procurement in collaboration with transplant coordinators, donor hospitals, cardiac surgeons, and retrieval teams.
- Ensure appropriate donor screening, testing, eligibility assessment, and documentation.
- Coordinate the retrieval, transportation, processing, cryopreservation, storage, quality assessment, and release of homograft valves, vessels, patches, and other approved tissues.
- Maintain full chain-of-custody and traceability from donor retrieval to clinical implantation.
Quality and Regulatory Compliance
- Develop and maintain SOPs, policies, forms, quality records, and operational documentation.
- Prepare and maintain all documents required for licensing, accreditation, inspections, and audits.
- Ensure compliance with SKMC, PureHealth, Department of Health (DOH), and other applicable regulatory requirements.
- Participate in audits, quality improvement initiatives, and corrective and preventive action processes.
Inventory and Equipment Management
- Coordinate procurement and inventory management of consumables, reagents, cryopreservation materials, and laboratory supplies.
- Liaise with Biomedical Engineering, Facilities Management, and external vendors for equipment maintenance, liquid nitrogen supply, and infrastructure support.
- Ensure continuous operational readiness of storage and cryopreservation systems.
Documentation and Reporting
- Maintain accurate records of all tissue banking activities.
- Collect and analyse operational data and key performance indicators.
- Prepare and submit reports required by hospital administration, quality teams, PureHealth, DOH, and other stakeholders.
Staff Training and Supervision
- Train, supervise, and assess competency of HVB personnel.
- Delegate responsibilities and ensure adequate staffing for 24-hour operational coverage.
- Promote a culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Maintain effective collaboration with Cardiac Surgery, Transplant Services, Operating Rooms, CSSD, Microbiology, Pathology, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering, Facilities, and Supply Chain teams.
Facilitate communication with donor hospitals and transplant teams to ensure timely donor tissue retrieval and processing
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