Job overview
Your Main role will be to cover the Phlebotomy Bus providing a patient friendly service as required, some weekends will be part of your rota,
Phlebotomists will be expected to provide a helpful and professional service to patients and healthcare staff within the Trust
We are looking for individuals with the skill and flexibility to support our services on the Phlebotomy Bus, Outpatients and Trust wards.
The successful candidates should be willing to participate in the weekend rota and may be asked cover all sites including the sites within Oxfordshire on the Phlebotomy Bus and the Hospital sites.
The individual will be responsible for ensuring that the blood specimens are taken in a manner that does not cause undue anxiety to the patient and that laboratories are provided with timely, high quality blood specimens taken in tubes that are appropriate for the tests requested.
Phlebotomy Experience is essential
Excellent patient care and compassion
Ability to work across our sites
Good IT Skills
Having a blood test done is often an essential step in a patients diagnosis or treatment and the care we give makes a real difference to this journey.
To take venous bloods safely from patients on the wards, outpatient and the Phlebotomy Bus.
To work within a team and also lone working,
To work with a computer on wheels using the EPR system
The successful candidate will be appointed as a band but will progress to band once specific competencies are met.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our phlebotomy team .
Some phlebotomy experience is essential.
This will be a mobile phlebotomy service covering five multiple sites on a weekly rota to include a new phlebotomy bus and shifts throughout the trust covering wards and outpatients.
This post will require the member of staff to travel between the hospital sites, and to the different bus sites within Oxfordshire,
It is essential that the applicant has a full driving license and access to a suitable vehicle.
Skills/Responsibilities
Working for our organisation
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. Find out more here
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 .
