Phlebotomist

Job Introduction

We are a looking for an experienced and dedicated Community Phlebotomist to join our team based at Sheppey Community Hospital. In the role, 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.

Hours are typically 8am - 2pm Monday to Friday (no weekends or bank holidays). As this role is a community role visiting patients in their own home on the Isle of Sheppey, we would require a driving license and access to a car to carry out the duties of the role.

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

As a Phlebotomist you will:

• Deal with patients, who are having blood sample taken, in a professional and courteous manner.
• Report any problems to the Senior Sister or GP for advice or remedial action.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Maintain accuracy of patient identification on blood bottles.
• Ensure that contemporaneous records are maintained.
• Ensure that patients’ confidentiality is maintained and that Caldicott principles are adhered to.
• Maintain standards of care in line with clinical policies and procedures.

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have:

• NVQ Level 2
• UK driving license and access to a car
• Previous Phlebotomy experience
• Previous Community experience
• Theoretical and practical structured assessment on venepuncture
• Team worker and ability to work alone
• Ability to listen to and to communicate with patients and carers in a compassionate and caring manner

Please refer to the Job Description for more detail on the main responsibilities and person specification for this role.

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 Community Phlebotomist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Sheppey Community Hospital.

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

• A salary of £20,500 (pro-rated to hours worked) and access to our group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission