# Phlebotomist

**Company**: Woodcote Medical
**Location**: Purley, Surrey
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £13 to £14 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a friendly, experienced, and confident Phlebotomist to join our supportive and welcoming GP practice for 21.25 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 7:45am - 12pm).

This is an important patient-facing role within our clinical team. You will be responsible for providing safe, efficient, and compassionate phlebotomy services to our patients, ensuring they have a positive and reassuring experience throughout their appointment.

Experience of working in a GP Surgery is essential.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Perform phlebotomy safely, confidently, and efficiently

- Collect blood samples for a range of laboratory investigations

- Accurately identify, label, and handle patient samples in accordance with practice and laboratory procedures

- Follow all relevant infection prevention and control procedures

- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and patient records

- Provide a calm, professional, and reassuring experience, particularly for patients who may be anxious or nervous about having blood taken

- Maintain a clean, safe, and well-organised clinical environment

- Work effectively as part of the wider multidisciplinary practice team.

**Working Pattern:** Monday to Friday, 7:45am to 12:00pm. The role involves working within 5-minute appointment slots, so confidence, efficiency, and excellent practical skills are essential. The successful candidate will also need to be flexible to work across our Purley and Coulsdon surgery sites.

**Benefits:** No benefits mentioned.

**Person Specification:** **Essential:**

- Experience in phlebotomy

- Experience working in a GP practice

**Desirable:**

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Professional, friendly, and genuinely patient-focused

- Calm, reassuring, and empathetic manner

- Reliable, organised, and able to work independently

- Excellent attention to detail when handling, labelling, and documenting samples

- Understands the importance of infection prevention, clinical governance, and patient safety

- Adaptable and willing to work across both practice locations.

## Skills

### Required
- phlebotomy
- GP practice experience

### Nice to have
- excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- professional, friendly, and genuinely patient-focused
- calm, reassuring, and empathetic manner
- reliable, organised, and able to work independently
- excellent attention to detail

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