Community Phlebotomist

**Community Phlebotomist**:
**Band 2**:
**Main area**
- Community Nursing
- **Grade**
- Band 2
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8am-4pm)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-527**Site**
- Bodmin Health Centre
- **Town**
- Bodmin and Three Harbours
- **Salary**
- £20,669 - £21,318 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We currently have a vacancy for a Community Phlebotomist working within the Bodmin & 3 Harbours Community Nursing Team and to work flexibly across the North locality when required.

Situated in the beautiful area of North East Cornwall we are busy, dynamic and forward thinking Community Nursing Team covering several General Practitioner surgeries. We are currently seeking to recruit a Community Phlebotomist, with a commitment to provide compassionate, holistic patient care, working flexibly across the area.

You must possess excellent communication and people skills; have the ability to work autonomously with little direct supervision, whilst being a committed member our supportive team. Ability to travel independently across the County to fulfil the requirements of the post is essential as this position will be visiting our housebound patients to take blood samples and incorporate urine testing and blood pressure checks as necessary. Experience would be desirable although not essential as full training can be given.

Regular training updates will be given to ensure high standards of care are maintained.

This is a lone worker post.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To assist in the delivery of clinical duties in patient’s own home under indirect supervision by a registered nurse or a senior health care Assistant.
- To assist in the delivery of clinical care, planned and assessed by the registered nurses.
- Regularly working without direct supervision, but as a member of the proactive nursing team.
- To obtain blood and other relevant samples from housebound patients through either venous or capillary as requested for testing in the community.
- To carry out clinical observations on patients recognising, recording and reporting all changes in patients condition to nursing staff.
- To under take simple dressings as per the patients care plan whilst ensuring ANTT is followed.
- To share responsibility of the cleanliness, care and maintenance of all the equipment in use by self and community nursing team.
- To recognise the importance of health education and teaching patients and carers and inform nursing staff where this might be required.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve p