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Cancer Care Phlebotomist
| Posting date: | 29 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,169.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24169.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 6YD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9188-25-0478 |
Summary
Receive all patients in a calm, courteous and reassuring manner and uphold the confidentiality, dignity and best customer care practice for all patients/clients at all times. Advise and support patients / carers, within the scope of knowledge and role, whilst maintaining confidentiality. This includes using tact, reassurance and persuasive skills to overcome anxiety and barriers to understanding such as those who are non-English speaking, and those with learning disabilities. Identify the correct patient against the blood request, collect and accurately label blood samples from all patients according to local policies. Ensure full explanation is given to patient prior to performing the task. Provide assistance to all patients experiencing difficulties during and following procedure (e.g. those patients feeling dizzy, sick or faint). Escalate to the Nurse in Charge /Team Leader if unable to bleed any patients. Visit wards and outpatient areas regarding provision of phlebotomy and cannulation services as required, liaising with ward staff accordingly. Prioritise own work according to fasting/urgent requests to ensure a prompt service and to deliver all samples to laboratory reception within an appropriate time frame. Be familiar with all standard venesection and cannulation procedures, especially in relation to the control of infection (e.g. needle stick injury, disposal of sharps, blood borne viruses, using disposable gloves and tourniquets). Ensure compliance with all policies and regulations, including but not limited to, infection control and hand hygiene policy, at all times. Take responsibility for own personal development and education, as well as maintaining personal development plans, mandatory competencies and skills. Be able to support both the Cancer Care Ward demands and Cancer Care clinics, and be flexible between workloads. Maintain adequate stocks of consumables and equipment in the work area, take delivery of stores and identify shortages of any items to the Manager / Deputy. Be responsible for the cleaning of individual trolleys prior to procedures and cleaning of the clinical area/equipment (e.g. work tops, chairs and patient trolley). Participate in collection of data regarding number of bleeds/attendance of patients for audit purposes as required.