Provide Community
Community Phlebotomist
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Main area Nursing Grade
Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE3949-B
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: Eastlight House
Town: Braintree, Essex
Salary: £25,272 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/07/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are seeking compassionate and reliable Phlebotomys to join our community team supporting patients across Mid Essex. The role offers a rewarding opportunity to provide high-quality phlebotomy services to patients in their own homes, residential care settings and community clinics. You will play a vital role in supporting local GP practices and community healthcare teams by providing safe, efficient and patient focused blood collection services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for delivering timely diagnostic venepuncture and INR testing, in line with established protocols, for housebound and community-based patients across a diverse caseload. The role requires the ability to work independently in community settings while remaining an integral part of a supportive and collaborative team.
Responsibilities include ensuring accurate specimen labelling, the safe and secure transportation of samples to designated collection points and consistently maintaining patient comfort and dignity throughout each interaction.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise).
We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. We work from a variety of community settings, such as three community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults.
We have an income of approximately 67 million, and serve communities with a total population of more than 4.5 million people.
The Phlebotomy Service is a relatively small team but we cover a large part of MidEssex for Domiciliary Blood tests and Anticoagulation monitoring(INR) We now have a position available for health care professionals who would like to become part of this very busy and productive team to enable us to push forward and deliver a first class service.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further details see Job Description and Person Specification in attached documents.
Please contact Ann Farmer if you require any further information on 07580911896.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Certificate in Phlebotomy
Driving
Essential criteria
- Full UK driving license with access to a car
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in Phlebotomy
Desirable criteria
- Community related experience
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Systm One
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of dealing with the public, face-to-face
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent computer skills and experience using Microsoft packages
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Anti Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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