Job summary
- Main area
- community Phlebotomist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-2071
- Employer
- 393 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North middlesex universtiy Hosptial NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £23,615 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Phlebotomist
NHS AfC: Band 2
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
The post holder will support the efficient running of the in-patient, outpatients, and community phlebotomy service. This will include both adults and Children. They will ensure that the patient’s needs are met integrating high quality care in the most cost-effective setting.
To perform daily, the pro-active task of venipuncture (blood collection). To draw, label and store blood samples in a manner that ensures the samples are fit for analytical/diagnostic testing within the Laboratory. The roel hodler si reqruei dto travel to our community Hubs
Main duties of the job
- Practice safe standards of care to patients following guidelines and policies and within the scope of the Phlebotomy role.
- Work effectively as part of a team.
- Obtain consent prior to giving care in accordance with Trust policies.
- Participate in the delivery and maintenance of an efficient Phlebotomy service on the Wards at Weston and the Outpatients Department.
- Have completed a period of training in the methods of venipuncture and safe/ correct disposal of sharps and items contaminated with blood and signed off competent.
- Ensure that patients are always treated safely and courteously and experience the minimum of distress throughout the blood sampling procedure.
- Check patient details and that blood request forms or ICE requests have been properly completed by requesting clinician.
- Liaise with the public and other healthcare professionals.
- Obtain blood from adult patients using safety needles and disposable tourniquets
- Dealing with patients with varying disabilities and/or confusion.
- Ensuring that the sample/s are correctly labelled, drawn into the correct sample bottles and otherwise properly treated, to be suitable for the analyses requested.
- Able to prioritise workload when demand exceeds capacity.
- To maintain working stocks of sample bottles and equipment required on a day-to-day basis.
- Be able to work as a team and pass on information to ensure smooth running of department, and the safety of fellow phlebotomists/staff.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Embrace the Trust values
- Act within limits of competence, ensuring actions support care, protection and wellbeing of others
- Ensure all mandatory training is undertaken in line with Trust policy
- Participate when requested with investigation relating to incidents involving patients and staff
- Participate in team discussion and meetings Administration
- Use IT systems such as Medway, patient information and information within the ward / unit environment
- Comply with Trust policy regarding information governance and the care of patient property.
- Participate in Annual Appraisal process
Person specification
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Recognised qualification in Phlebotomy
- • Level 2 QCF Diploma in Clinical Healthcare support/ Level 2 NVQ in Healthcare/Health & Social Care (E)
- • GCSE A*- D in English Language or equivalent (e.g., Certificate in Adult Literacy at Level 1)
- • GCSE A* - D or equivalent in Mathematics (e.g., Certificate in Adult Numeracy at Level 1) (E)
- • Good communication skills both written and verbal
- • Able to complete appropriate documentation accurately
- • Demonstrate an awareness of healthcare work and policies and procedures
- • experience of working in a health care setting within the last 12 months as a phlebotomist (E)
- • Experience of time management skills and prioritising work(E)
- • Able to work a range of shifts and moving across wards/unit dependent on clinical need
Desirable criteria
- Must have wide experience of technical equipment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bonnie Nolan
- Job title
- Phlebotomy Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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