Phlebotomist

Phlebotomist Strood, England

Medway Community Healthcare CIC
Full Time Strood, England 25259 - 34000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

  • Are you looking for a new challenge?
  • Do you have phlebotomy experience?
  • Are you looking for part-time work?
  • This is a rotational post throughout Medway.
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!

We are looking for a motivated phlebotomist to work in our community nursing team. You will provide an efficient and effective phlebotomy service to our patients in their homes.

We are looking for someone who can work around 20 hours per week from 8am to 12.30pm or 9am to 1pm, from Monday to Friday but can be flexible on this.

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.
  • You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
So what are you waiting for? We can’t wait to hear from you, and look forward to receiving your application.

The small print
  • Informal visits can be arranged on request.
  • We will always appoint the best person for the job, but applications are particularly welcome from candidates from BAME groups which are underrepresented in our service.
  • We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and our Scottish Widows group personal pension.
  • Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how importantwork 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”
Please note, if this role requires you to enter CQC registered care homes, COVID vaccination compliance is already mandatory.
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
1. 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 skills
1. 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.
1. 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.
1. 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
1. 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
1. 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.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
  • Manage stock / office stationery
  • Maybe required to issue / take responsibility for equipment used by self and others.
1. 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
1. 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
1. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

Will be required to undertake surveys and audits when requested in own area of work.

1. 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.

1. Physical effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

1. Mental effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

1. Emotional effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

1. Working conditions (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

Phlebotomist
Medway Community Healthcare CIC

www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk
Gillingham, United Kingdom
Martin Riley
$25 to $50 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
2010
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