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Main area
Phlebotomy
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-LCL-69-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Liverpool Clinical Laboratories
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/07/2024 23:59

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Senior Phlebotomist

Band 4

Job overview

Senior Phlebotomist

Band  4

Permanent and Fixed Term posts available

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Phlebotomist to step up into the role of a Senior Phlebotomist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

This is an interesting and highly skilled post, requiring the ability to work under pressure, delegate tasks, rota management and sickness monitoring. The individual will also have an opportunity to provide training in venepuncture. The successful candidate will be the first port of call for both patients and staff with queries, comments, and complaints, escalating to the line manager when required.

You will work closely with the line manager to ensure all sites are covered during operating hours, and some cross site cover will be required as part of training and service delivery needs. You will also be expected to perform weekly stock takes and order any required stock. Good computer skills, excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills will be expected.

You will report directly to the Phlebotomy Services Manager, escalating any issues as required. To help facilitate your own training and development, it will be expected that you attend any Trust training courses deemed appropriate to your job role.

Main duties of the job

As a senior Phlebotomist, you will look after the day to day running of services across both sites and our ward service, ensuring all areas are staffed adequately, approving/denying annual leave as it is requested, and monitoring sickness. You will be expected to perform return to work discussions with those returning off sick, and escalating any sickness queries, or stages to your line manager.

You will be responsible for creating and maintaining rotas across both sites and for our ward service, including break allocation. Rotas are managed through Roster so a level of computer competency is essential.

Senior Phlebotomists are expected to have a high skill level in venepuncture, assisting colleagues with more challenging bleeds and will be able to provide further training to staff from around the Trust. It is expected that Senior Phlebotomists will provide cover for Phlebotomy Services wherever the delivery need is required.  

You will be required to monitor training and development in the department, ensuring all staff are given adequate off-rota time to complete any outstanding mandatory training. There is an expectation that you will be able to help them with this.

As a Senior Phlebotomist, you will work alongside your colleagues across all areas where Phlebotomy support is provided, performing venepuncture, offering support and help to colleagues and patients, taking questions and queries and directing as necessary.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Drawing up rotas
• Communicating with staff to ensure rota cover
• Amending/updating the job plan accordingly when problems with rotas 
occur, by re-allocating staff to enable the service to run efficiently 
• Processing weekly staff rotas recording holidays weekly and sickness
• Be aware of and propose changes to practice policy as need be provide feedback on practice policy in order to implement any changes required
• Train New starters in phlebotomy, and customer care, medical students in phlebotomy technique/ blood tubes
• Record phlebotomy activity on a daily basis, i.e. amount of bloods taken and number of patients
• Collect in daily numbers for department, wards, clinics, occasionally rosters, and bank forms Paper based filing system (facts and figures)
• Dealing with staff complaints/ patient complaints
• Dealing with patients presenting without documentation , contacting GP 
surgery to confirm tests required and completing documentation accordingly.
• Interpretation of request on forms, assessing the workload of particular areas and allocating the appropriate number of staff to that area.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant area of knowledge

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable experience in Phlebotomy

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Interpreting blood forms, Staff rotas, Roster returns, Collection of data
  • Selection of venepuncture sites
  • Assembling monovette system, Aseptic technique
  • Need to know the most suitable sites for venepuncture and also be able to abstract blood from more obscure sites. Correct use of blood tubes and why these tubes are used

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStep into health

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Campbell
Job title
Phlebotomy Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 4042
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