Description
This is an exciting opportunity for a new Phlebotomist to join our experienced and hard working team 6-8 hrs pw over 1 or 2 days pw. The practice offers excellent services to patients and is highly regarded in the area with consistently high levels of patient feedback.
The post holder will work under the direct supervision of the Clinical Manager/Senior Nurse, other ANPs and nurses as required.
Main duties of the job
- To take bloods as directed and requested and in accordance with practice policies
- To ensure that all contacts with patients are recorded contemporaneously in the patient medical record
- To attend meetings and provide input as appropriate
- To respond appropriately and in a timely manner to all internal and external communications
Job responsibilities
- Clinical
- Administrative
- Ensure all contacts with patients are recorded contemporaneously in the patient medical record.
- Attend relevant meetings and provide input where appropriate
Communication
- Ensure that accurate, contemporaneous and complete notes of all consultations are made on the practice IT system (currently EMIS web)
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all members of the clinical and non-clinical team.
- Communicate effectively with patients and their relatives through verbal and non-verbal means.
- Assess the patients ability to provide informed consent in keeping with the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and the Deprivation of Liberty safeguards
- Read and reply to internal and external emails on a regular basis as a means to communicate with other staff members.
Supervision and Team Work
- Assist with the placements of medical and nursing students when required.
- Actively participate in team/clinical/practice meetings
Personal & Professional Development
- Take responsibility for own professional development, learning and performance.
- Undertake all mandatory and statutory training as required by the post.
- Undertake any necessary training and development identified through the appraisal process.
- Attend clinical supervision meetings as appropriate
- Maintain a record of own personal & professional development.
- Ensure all training and education is up to date as required to maintain competence within role.
- Understand limitations of the role and own sphere of competence.
- Demonstrate awareness of the legal frameworks applicable to the role.
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Health & Safety
- The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified
Equality and Diversity
- The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.