Are you a caring and compassionate phlebotomist?
Are you passionate about supporting nurses to provide excellent, holistic care in the community?
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
We are looking for a community phlebotomist to work 20 hours a week from Monday to Friday. The shifts are 4 hours each and although we can be flexible on the start time, we would expect your 4-hour shift to have finished by 1pm each day. There is no requirement to work weekends or public holidays.
The role involves providing an efficient and effective venous blood sample collection for individuals aged 18 and over in their own homes or residential care settings across the Medway towns, treating our patients with courtesy and respect.
You will need to have access to a vehicle for work purposes to be able to carry out your visits in a timely manner.
To provide an efficient and effective venous blood sample to individuals in their own or residential settings within the Medway Towns
The team phlebotomist will work within a community or neighbourhood nursing team across multiple locations throughout the Medway towns. This role will perform venous blood sample collection to service users from the age of 18 years and above.
So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
1. Communication and relationship skills
To be able to use various methods of communications namely verbal, non-verbal and IT competently.
To communicate in a skilled and effective manner with patients, carers and colleagues
To have excellent team working skills and to be able to work in partnership with other healthcare professionals
To be able to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity and good interpersonal skills
To be able to communicate effectively with patients who may have communication difficulties namely, speech impairments, deaf, blind and patients who do not have English as their first language.
To be flexible, reliable and organised
To communicate effectively with external agencies
2. Knowledge, training and experience
Educated to NVQ level 2 or equivalent
Successful completion of in-house training including practical training
Good clerical and organisational skills
Good IT skill
3. Analytical and judgement skills
Make judgement involving facts / situations sometimes requiring analysis of information
Provide workload and make appropriate level decisions such as when to escalate and ensure this is done in a timely manner. E.g. queries from patients and carers.
4. Planning and organisational skills
Organise and prioritise preparation, running and closure of clinics.
Work flexibly to maintain cover within the service / organisation.
Maintain effective systems to ensure the service operates efficiently.
5. Physical skills
Able to perform venous blood sampling collection to organisational and health and safety standards.
Good hand/ eye coordination and manual dexterity for performing physical tests on patients
Standard keyboard skills
Use standard office equipment e.g. fax, photocopier
6. Responsibility for patient / client care
Provide clinical advice within scope of practice and information to patients, carers, relatives or staff face to face, over the telephone or by other means.
Consistently treat others with courtesy and respect
7. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
Responsible for ensuring that the organisational policies and procedures (including amendments and updates) are adhered to and implanted in own are of work.
8. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
Manage stock / office stationery
Maybe required to issue / take responsibility for equipment used by self and others
9. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
Act as a buddy demonstrating own are of work to new or less experienced employees such as apprentices or volunteers.
Willingness and ability to provide peer supervision, observation and support
10. Responsibilities for information resources
Accurately enter data / process information utilising appropriate IT systems
Transcribing / copy typing information provided by others
Management of information either electronic or paper based
11. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)
Will be required to undertake surveys and audits when requested in own area of work.
12. Freedom to act
Plan and organise own workload without direct supervision, reporting regularly to senior on key tasks and guided by defined policies and procedures.
13. Physical effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)
14. Mental effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)
15. Emotional effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)
16. Working conditions (refer to effort factor questionnaire)
