Phlebotomist

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Oxford; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Oxford is seeking an experienced Phlebotomist to join their team. The role involves safely taking venous blood samples, ensuring excellent patient care, and providing support to the clinical team. Candidates should have at least six months of phlebotomy experience and a commitment to customer service. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and a range of wellbeing benefits.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• At least six months phlebotomy experience.
• Ability to work in a healthcare environment.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Take venous bloods safely from patients.
• Check patient identity and consent.
• Provide high-quality support to the clinical team.
• Monitor stock levels and advise on re-orders.

Skills

Attention to detail

Customer service

Phlebotomy experience

Healthcare environment experience

Job description

Phlebotomist

Oxford Hospital I Pathology | Permanent contract | Full time
£24,531per annum

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, we’re looking for someone with a keen eye for detail and experience of working in a healthcare environment to join us. If you are caring and have strong communication skills, our highly motivated and talented team will really value what you bring.

As a Phlebotomist at our Oxford Hospital, you’ll show a commitment to excellent customer service. Phlebotomy experience is essential

As a Phlebotomist, you will:

• To take venous bloods safely from patients on the wards and outpatient departments.
• To take venous blood of good quality using aseptic techniques and ensuring minimum of pain and discomfort to the patient.
• To check the identity of the patient, ensure than any special instructions have been followed (e.g period of fasting) and to gain patients consent to proceed.
• Provide high-quality support to our clinical team
• Keep calm under pressure and remain professional
• Prepares work areas correctly, and correctly and safely prepares, uses and stores equipment.
• Monitor stock levels and advise senior staff when stock needs to be re-ordered.
• Handles and treats specimens/samples in accordance with policies and procedures to ensure that the nature, sequence and timing of activities are correctly carried out.
• Checks with relevant information sources to confirm the tasks to be undertaken.
• Respects individual’s dignity, wishes and beliefs, involving them in shared decision making and obtains their consent for activities to be undertaken.
• Prepares appropriately for the task to be undertaken, taking into account risks.
• Records tasks correctly, following delegated procedures /protocols consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
• Monitors individuals whilst carrying out tasks and identifies any change to their health and wellbeing.

To Succeed as a Phlebotomist you will have:

• At least six months phlebotomy experience.
• A keen eye for detail.
• Commitment to excellent customer service.
• Experience of working in a healthcare environment.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Oxford Hospital

Our modern hospital is based within a stone’s throw of the historic City of Oxford, a world-renowned centre of excellence for surgical and medical expertise. We are proud of the wonderful environment and team we have established, providing our patients with first class care. We operate 6 well equipped and modern operating theatres with 64 well-presented ensuite rooms. We cater for inpatient and day care, providing a broad range of surgical specialties and clinics including Paediatrics, Oncology, Interventional Cardiology & Radiology, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology as well as women’s and men’s health clinics. The hospital is located with excellent transport links by road and rail, both to and from London, Thames Valley, and the Midlands.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as wereceive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.