Phlebotomist - Children's Unit | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,383 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP4 5PD |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6231455/432-HR100-24 |
Summary
Our Children’s Unit at Ipswich Hospital are looking for a Phlebotomist to join our friendly team.
This is an interesting and varied role requiring a compassionate person with excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure.
You will have recent clinical experience in Phlebotomy ideally within a Paediatric environment.
You will collect blood samples directly from patients by venepuncture (if undergoing training, the collecting of blood samples will be supervised).
You will communicate with all Children and Young People of varying needs and their families.
You will accurately identify patients and label samples accordingly.
You will be required to perform duties throughout the Children’s Unit and maintain records in relation to activities carried out.
To engage with the Child Health Play Team to support Children/Young people with distraction techniques and advocacy of those with additional needs, where therapeutic play involvement is crucial
To work as part of the multidisciplinary team within Children Outpatients, to ensure appointments are managed effectively and in a timely manner
The work of this service brings staff into constant contact with human body fluids, tissues and hazardous chemicals. This may include blood, pus, urine, faeces, and respiratory secretions.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024