Community Phlebotomist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes 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 ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Join our dedicated and friendly Community Phlebotomy Service, where you will have the opportunity to provide compassionate care to patients both in their homes and community clinics. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and are seeking motivated Community Phlebotomists to support the teams based in Knowsley, Liverpool or Sefton.
The successful candidates must be willing to travel to work at other sites / geographical areas if needed.
Various posts are available, we offer full and part time posts in our Liverpool team, Knowsley team and Sefton team with a minimum of 18.75hours per week. We are unable to guarantee set days in our service.
Applicant support is available to all applicants who may need additional support when completing their application form, this support provides you with tips on how to demonstrate your eligibility for the role plus many other useful tips and resources.
If you would like further support or guidance, please contact the following email address [email protected], The post holder is expected to work effectively as a team member of the community phlebotomy service, ensuring a reliable, responsive and quality blood collection service.
1. To actively participate and contribute to team working in response to service developments and the business plan.
2. Work within the community (e.g., within a patients' own home) as a lone practitioner with telephone support. Seek advice and support from a more senior colleague for matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills.
3. Work independently in a busy clinic environment ensuring that patients receive blood tests on time and manage patient flow.
4. Obtain informed consent from the patient to treatment and the sharing of information, documenting in accordance with Trust procedures.
5. Use IT system to document outcome of appointment., + To take blood samples from patients referred into the service in a variety of settings and venues across the boroughs of Knowsley, Liverpool or Sefton.
+ To ensure that all documentation is completed accurately and efficiently.
+ To keep an adequate supply of essential equipment for clinics and domiciliary visits to ensure service delivery.
+ To work in line with the infection prevention and control policy.
+ To maintain a clean and tidy work area at all times.
+ Maintain high level of competency in all required clinical techniques.
+ Ensure specimens are appropriately prepared prior to being collected, for example accurately labelled and in correct sample bottles.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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.