Community Phlebotomist

**Community Phlebotomist - Launceston & Tamar Valley**:
**Band 2**:
**Main area**
- Community Nursing
- **Grade**
- Band 2
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8am - 12.30pm)
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-080**Site**
- Launceston & Tamar Valley Community Nursing team
- **Town**
- Launceston
- **Salary**
- £22,383 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 05/02/2024 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.**

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- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

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- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
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**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _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 Launceston & Tamar Valley Community Nursing Team and to work flexibly across the East locality when required.

The team has 2 bases: Launceston Hospital and Callington Community Clinic.

Situated in the beautiful area of East Cornwall we are a 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 of 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 people’s physical and mental health. We als