Main area: Phlebotomy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: 10 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
Hours: Part time - 12 hours per week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 08:30 until 11:30.)
Job ref: 190-8861-DIR
Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Sheffield Children's Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/02/2025
NHS AfC: Band 3
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the phlebotomy service provided by South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Pathology (SYBP) partnership. A Band 3 Phlebotomist is required to join the team currently providing a service to Sheffield Children's Hospital as well as to babies in the Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
As an integral part of the Phlebotomy team, you will have a key role in supporting the SYB patients by providing a capillary blood sample collection service predominantly based at Sheffield Children's Hospital as well as the Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The postholder will also assist with specimen reception in the laboratory and may use Point of Care Testing devices where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the SYBP Phlebotomy services is to provide parity of phlebotomy duties and responsibilities on all sites where phlebotomy services are under the remit of the laboratory. As such, all members of Phlebotomy staff will be trained to a standard that grants a ‘training passport’ so that they can be deployed on any SYBP site to perform all duties.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths and English at level C/4 or above or some laboratory experience
* Willingness to complete an in-house competency package and additional skills training equivalent to A level/NVQ Level 3 or NVQ level 2 with recognised additional short courses (e.g. Venepuncture training, clinicalskills.net) or extensive experience in Phlebotomy/Venepuncture
* Phlebotomy training course/ previous evidence of competence.
Experience
* Ability to follow and work to Standard Operating Procedures and Policy
* Experience with a range of laboratory techniques/working with variety of venepuncture equipment or relevant transferrable experience in a clinical environment
* Previous experience within the NHS.
Skills and Knowledge
* Keyboard and basic IT skills
* Have an awareness of Health & Safety issues
* Effective Communication skills, written and oral
* Evidence of effective time management skills and with a methodical approach
Personal Qualities
* Commitment to complete and maintain Mandatory training and required laboratory competences
* Ability to plan and prioritise allocated work
* Commitment to departmental shift patterns (including weekends bank holidays and out of hours) to enable effective service delivery.
* Ability to travel across the SYB region to work at other sites and/or perform patient domiciliary visits
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