Phlebotomist

ESNEFT - Pathology services are a partnership of laboratories based at Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals. Our vision is to deliver innovative, high-performing pathology that is focussed on our customers and delivers high quality and fully compliant services.

Our service is clinically led and designed to achieve the benefits of scale that can be achieved by the hospitals working together, while remaining close enough to our customers to meet their needs and support the excellent clinical care provided by our hospitals.

We are looking for healthcare professionals who understand the changing services of pathology and represent the service going forward.

The role involves weekday and weekend working. All phlebotomy staff are required to participate in the cover of bank holidays on a rota basis. Flexible working to cover short notice absence will be a huge advantage. Working pattern for this post will be as follows:

• Week 1-Mon 0745-1300, Tues 0745-1315, Weds OFF, Thurs OFF, Fri 0745-1200, Sat-0730-11, Sun 0730-1100
• Week 2- Mon 0745-1300, Tues 0745-1200, Weds OFF, Thurs 0745-1200, Fri 0745-1200, Sat OFF, Sun OFF.
• Work every other weekend
• Work in the hospital ward environment with patients who may be severely debilitated
• Adhere strictly to established protocols and trust policies
• Have excellent work attendance and good time-keeping
• Provide a caring and professional service for users
• Collect blood samples directly from patients by venepuncture
• Accurate identification of patient and labelling of samples
• Maintain records in relation to activities carried
• Communication with all patients of varying needs

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Key Duties for this role:

• Technical
• Communication
• Information resources

For full details of the responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.