Job responsibilities
POST TITLE: Phlebotomist
BASE: Abbeywell
Surgery – Nightingale & Abbey Mead sites
WORKING
HOURS: 21 hours per
week
SALARY: Depending
on experience
REPORTING TO: Practice Nurse Co-ordinator
ROLE OVERVIEW
Abbeywell Surgery is looking for an
experienced Phlebotomist to join our friendly and supportive clinical team. You
will assist the team in the provision of prescribed patient care, ensuring that
samples are carefully and accurately labelled and prepared for collection.
You will need to be IT proficient as
you must be able to manage your own clinic and record information in the
patient’s notes after every sample taken.
This is a permanent position,
part-time, working 21 hours per week. You will work across our two sites and,
if needed, will need to take domiciliary samples. It will include the
occasional Saturday working to cover weekend phlebotomy clinics.
ABOUT ABBEYWELL SURGERY
Abbeywell Surgery is a friendly and
forward-thinking GP Practice located in the heart of Romsey, a beautiful market
town in Hampshire. We serve a registered
patient population of 19,000 over two practice sites – Nightingale and Abbey
Mead.
We are committed to investing in the GPs of the
future and are a training and research practice. We have 7 GP Partners and an experienced and supportive nursing team who aim to deliver high quality care to patients
with support from a strong non-clinical team. We work closely with our neighbouring
GP Practices as part of the Romsey & North Baddesley Primary Care Network
(PCN).
We offer:
- Competitive salary
- 5 weeks annual leave plus
bank holidays (pro rata)
- Additional 1 day
‘birthday’ annual leave
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Staff ‘thank you’ scheme
and wellbeing events
MAIN DUTIES
·
Venepuncture
·
Processing
and management of laboratory samples requested by GPs/nurses
·
Requesting
pathology tests
·
Ability
to record accurate clinical notes
·
Ability
to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to nurses or
GP
·
Excellent
communication skills
·
INR*
if trained
·
Chaperoning
duties
·
Testing
and processing urine specimens
Extended duties (If already trained - or later, where training is
required):
·
Vaccine/cold
chain storage, monitoring and recording
·
Monitoring
and recording patients vital signs, BP, Pulse
·
ECG
recording
The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may
be subject to change as deemed necessary.
DATA
PROTECTION ACT
We are all expected to be aware of the Data Protection Act 2018 and to
follow the local Codes of Practice to ensure appropriate action is taken to
safeguard confidential information.
HEALTH &
SAFETY
We all have a responsibility for health and safety, risk assessment and
workplace inspections, and you will be expected to take reasonable care for
your own health and safety and that of others.
You will also be expected to co-operate with your colleagues to ensure
that statutory regulations, policies, codes of practice and departmental safety
procedures are adhered to, and to attend any training programmes that we
consider to be relevant.
INFECTION CONTROL
We all have a responsibility to make sure that
Infection Control remains a priority in terms of attention and resources. If
you work in a role that provides direct patient care, then you’ll be expected
to follow our policies and procedures which are designed to reduce the risk of
passing on the organisms that can cause infections.
We all, collectively and individually, have a
duty of care to follow best practice and adhere to any guidelines which
underpin the management of Infection Control.
CONFIDENTIALITY
We all have a responsibility to make sure that we don’t disclose any
information of a confidential nature relating to the services we provide or in
respect of any service user, client or third party. This applies both during
and after your employment.
EQUALITY &
DIVERSITY
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of
patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the
importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is
consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and
beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to
and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances,
feelings priorities and rights.
DATA QUALITY
We are all responsible for making sure that our data and electronic
records are updated, accurate, relevant, reliable, and completed in line with
our record keeping standards and policies.
TRAINING &
DEVELOPMENT
The post holder will
participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of
this employment, such training to include:
·
Participation
in an annual individual performance review, annual Appraisal including taking responsibility for maintaining a
record of own personal and/or professional development;
·
Taking
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating
skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
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.