Senior Phlebotomist
Band 4
Main area
Phlebotomy
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 35 hours per week
Job ref
287-DTC-20-26
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
Liverpool Clinical Laboratories
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/02/2026 23:59
Job Overview
Senior Phlebotomist
Band 4
Permanent (35hrs)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Phlebotomist to step up into the role of a Senior Phlebotomist at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group.
This is an interesting and highly skilled post, requiring the ability to work under pressure, delegate tasks, rota management and sickness monitoring. The individual will also have an opportunity to provide training in venepuncture. The successful candidate will be the first port of call for both patients and staff with queries, comments, and complaints, escalating to the line manager when required.
You will work closely with the line manager to ensure all sites are covered during operating hours, and some cross site cover will be required as part of training and service delivery needs. You will also be expected to perform weekly stock takes and order any required stock. Good computer skills, excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills will be expected.
You will report directly to the Phlebotomy Services Manager, escalating any issues as required. To help facilitate your own training and development, it will be expected that you attend any Trust training courses deemed appropriate to your job role.
Main duties of the job
As a senior Phlebotomist, you will look after the day to day running of services across multiple sites and ward services, ensuring all areas are staffed adequately, approving/denying annual leave as it is requested, and monitoring sickness. You will be expected to perform return to work discussions with those returning off sick, and escalating any sickness queries, or stages to your line manager.
You will be responsible for creating and maintaining rotas across both sites and for our ward service, including break allocation. Rotas are managed through Roster so a level of computer competency is essential.
Senior Phlebotomists are expected to have a high skill level in venepuncture, assisting colleagues with more challenging bleeds and will be able to provide further training to staff from around the Trust. It is expected that Senior Phlebotomists will provide cover for Phlebotomy Services wherever the delivery need is required.
You will be required to monitor training and development in the department, ensuring all staff are given adequate off-rota time to complete any outstanding mandatory training. There is an expectation that you will be able to help them with this.
As a Senior Phlebotomist, you will work alongside your colleagues across all areas where Phlebotomy support is provided, performing venepuncture, offering support and help to colleagues and patients, taking questions and queries and directing as necessary.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Drawing up rotas
Communicating with staff to ensure rota cover
Amending/updating the job plan accordingly when problems with rotas occur, by re-allocating staff to enable the service to run efficiently
Processing weekly staff rotas recording holidays weekly and sickness
Be aware of and propose changes to practice policy as need be provide feedback on practice policy in order to implement any changes required
Train New starters in phlebotomy, and customer care, medical students in phlebotomy technique/ blood tubes
Record phlebotomy activity on a daily basis, i.e. amount of bloods taken and number of patients
Collect in daily numbers for department, wards, clinics, occasionally rosters, and bank forms Paper based filing system (facts and figures)
Dealing with staff complaints/ patient complaints
Dealing with patients presenting without documentation, contacting GP surgery to confirm tests required and completing documentation accordingly.
Interpretation of request on forms, assessing the workload of particular areas and allocating the appropriate number of staff to that area.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Interpreting blood forms, Staff rotas, Roster returns, Collection of data
Selection of venepuncture sites
Assembling monovette system, Aseptic technique
Need to know the most suitable sites for venepuncture and also be able to abstract blood from more obscure sites. Correct use of blood tubes and why these tubes are used
Experience
Essential criteria
Demonstrable experience in Phlebotomy
Qualifications
Essential criteria
NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant area of knowledge
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Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
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This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
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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.
Application numbers
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