Main area Phlebotomy - Community Division Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent: Part time Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (07:00 - 19:00) Job ref 350-CC5882078
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Across Liverpool phlebotomy clinics Town Liverpool Salary £22,383 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 29/05/2024
Community Phlebotomist
Band 2
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to join Liverpool phlebotomy. The post holder will work under supervision as part of the multi-disciplinary team and will assist and support the clinical team(s). This may include working within the patient’s home environment and other clinical settings within community. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Across Phlebotomy Service in Liverpool Clinics inclusive of all Domiciliary Settings. Service would try to ensure that you would be working from one base, however there will be times that you would be asked to work at other sites / geographical areas across the service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected to work effectively as a team member of the community phlebotomy service, ensuring a reliable, timely and quality specimen collection service.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To take blood samples from patients referred into the service in a variety of settings and venues across the borough of Knowsley
To ensure that all documentation is completed accurately and efficiently.
To keep the supply of essential equipment within the clinics and domiciliary service at an adequate level for service delivery.
Clinical
To work in line with the infection prevention and control policy.
To work in all Phlebotomy clinic’s and within the domiciliary service around the Sefton borough.
To maintain a clean and tidy clinical work area at all times.
Maintain high level of competency in all required techniques.
Ensure specimens are appropriately prepared prior to being collected by the courier service, for example, accurately labelled and in correct sample bottles.
Please see attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities and duties.
Person specification
Experience/Knowledge
* Working with the general public.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Relevant experience as a phlebotomist
* Demonstrate self-management and organisational skills
* Demonstrable evidence of a caring approach to the public.
* Ability to demonstrate flexibility and motivation in the workplace
* Must be able to travel effectively in the course of duties.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team is able to prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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