Bank Phlebotomist

Job Introduction

We are looking for someone to join our bank as a Phlebotomist in Gravesham Community Hospital!

You will a play a critical part in providing essential healthcare services to patients in their homes and in community settings. You will be responsible for collecting blood samples, ensuring the accuracy of blood results, and providing support and information to patients throughout the process.

We will provide you with a level of training and support to bolster your skillset to work across multiple functions if this is something you are interested in.

If you are passionate about providing quality healthcare and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we want to hear from you!

Main Responsibilities

• To deal with patients, who are having blood sample taken in a professional and courteous manner.
• To maintain accuracy of patient identification on blood bottles.
• Ensure that patients’ confidentiality is maintained and that Caldicott principles are adhered to.
• To take responsibility for personal protection and safe working environment.
• Act in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act
• Ensure that incidents are reported in a timely manner
• As a member of the phlebotomy team, contribute to service development.
• Participate in clinical supervision
• Attendance at team meetings

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a qualified phlebotomist; however, we will support with training if you have not worked in the role for a while.

You will be able to work well as part of a team but feel comfortable with following instructions from other team members. You will have a naturally empathetic and caring approach to communicating with patients and families.

It is also essential that you hold a Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle due to travel requirements.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Package Description

As a Bank Phlebotomist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Gravesham Community Hospital

You will feel valued as a Bank Phlebotomist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• An hourly rate of £10.93
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives