Phlebotomist

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a full-time, hard-working, highly motivated, and experienced Phlebotomist to work at Milton Keynes Renal Unit. Milton Keynes Renal Unit is a Satellite Unit of Oxford Kidney Unit and provides an Outpatient Service of Haemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, and Renal Clinics for patients in Milton Keynes and some parts of Buckinghamshire.

Main duties of the job

• To take venous bloods safely from patients on the outpatient Clinic and dialysis unit if needed.
• To check the identity of the patient, ensure that any special instructions have been followed (e.g., period of fasting) and to gain patients' consent to proceed.
• To take venous blood of good quality using aseptic techniques and ensuring minimum pain and discomfort to the patient.
• To make sure samples arrive at the labs safely.
• To work within a team and also lone working.
• To work using the EPR system and ICE.
• To work in an efficient manner to ensure the phlebotomy work is completed in the best practical time.
• To obtain and keep up to date with all learning.
• To ensure that safe working practices are maintained in the interests of both staff and patients according to Trust and Departmental policies.
• To co-operate with strategies to reduce cross infection.
• To make judgements regarding the viability of taking blood.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

• To take venous bloods safely from patients on the outpatient Clinic and dialysis unit if needed.
• To check the identity of the patient, ensure that any special instructions have been followed (e.g., period of fasting) and to gain patients' consent to proceed.
• To take venous blood of good quality using aseptic techniques and ensuring minimum pain and discomfort to the patient.
• To make sure samples arrive at the labs safely.
• To work within a team and also lone working.
• To work using the EPR system and ICE.
• To work in an efficient manner to ensure the phlebotomy work is completed in the best practical time.
• To obtain and keep up to date with all learning.
• To ensure that safe working practices are maintained in the interests of both staff and patients according to Trust and Departmental policies.
• To co-operate with strategies to reduce cross infection.
• To make judgements regarding the viability of taking blood.

Person Specification

• Experience as a Phlebotomist, Certificate should be presented, very good communication skills, worked in a private or NHS setting, has very good computer skills.
• Flexible, adaptable, hardworking, good organisational skills.

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

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Depending on experience, a higher salary pay should be offered.