Overview
Band 3 Clinical Support Worker – Community Phlebotomy at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The closing date is 04 February 2026.
We are looking for a confident and compassionate person to join our team supporting haematology patients at home. You will be a skilled and confident phlebotomist, confident in communicating with patients and their families in their own home. You will ideally have experience of palliative care and caring for patients at the end of their life, although full training and support will be given. You will be able to complete and record patients vital signs and know when to act to raise concerns and seek help. You will be confident to use I.T equipment and systems. You will be able to organise your own workload with support, but also be comfortable feeding back to the nursing team and raising concerns. A full driving license and access to your own car is essential.
Develop individual competencies and knowledge which will support the provision and evaluation of seamless specialist nursing services, ensuring patients receive the highest standards of clinical care. You will be supported by a more experienced nurse or nurses to enable you to achieve competence in agreed areas of specialist practice through exposure, training and education.
Main duties of the job
JOB SUMMARY CONTINUED:
Based within a site to include working in a range of practice settings across health and care providers. Additionally, you will be required to practice in premises/settings outside of NHS care providers as part of their role and travel to and from a range of practice settings across an agreed geographic, this may include secure units/residential homes and other regulated settings where patients may reside
MAIN DUTIES & TASKS:
* Attend patients home to collect blood samples: phlebotomy
* Carry out patient vital signs if needed
* Communicate with the wider team/patients/relatives/primary care and other community teams/carers
* Delivery of samples to laboratories
* Carry out risk assessments of lone working and home visits - with support
* Documentation of visits and any concerns
* Work as part of a nurse-led team to deliver high standards of care for patients at home
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good General Education
* NVQ 2 Health Care (E)
* NVQ 3 Health Care (D)
Experience
* Venepuncture qualification and experience
* Previous/recent healthcare experience
* Use of electronic patient records
* Palliative Care experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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