Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Phlebotomist
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Job Overview
Your Main role will be to cover the Phlebotomy service at the Whitehouse Dialysis Unit, our brand new dialysis unit in Whitehouse Park, in Milton Keynes.
Phlebotomists will be expected to provide a helpful and professional service to our renal patients who will attend their clinic appointment.
The clinics will be running on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays.
We are looking for individuals with the skill and flexibility to support our services on this nurse-led unit. We also have an additional dialysis unit in MK University Hospital with a phlebotomy service so you might be asked to cross cover if needed.
The individual will be responsible for ensuring that the blood specimens are taken in a manner and that laboratories are provided with timely, high-quality blood specimens taken in tubes that are appropriate for the tests requested.
Skills/Responsibilities
- To take venous bloods safely from patients on the wards and outpatient departments.
- To check the identity of the patient, ensure that any special instructions have been followed (e.g., period of fasting) and to gain patients' consent to proceed.
- To take venous blood of good quality using aseptic techniques and ensuring minimum pain and discomfort to the patient.
- To make sure samples arrive at the labs safely.
- To work within a team and also lone working.
- To work with a computer on wheels using the EPR system and ICE.
- To work in an efficient manner to ensure the phlebotomy work is completed in the best practical time.
- To obtain and keep up to date with all learning.
- To ensure that safe working practices are maintained in the interests of both staff and patients according to Trust and Departmental policies.
- To co-operate with strategies to reduce cross-infection.
- To make judgements regarding the viability of taking blood.
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Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our phlebotomy team.
Phlebotomy experience is desired.
This will be mainly based at the Whitehouse Dialysis Unit but on occasions may be asked to work at MK University Hospital in our additional renal Unit as a phlebotomist.
The applicant must have a full driving license and access to a suitable vehicle.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research.
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The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
As Oxford Kidney Unit, we are proudly part of OUH and we have 8 dialysis units, an outpatient department, renal ward, and CAPD.
Our values, standards, and behaviors define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mala Murugesan
- Job title: Unit Manager
- Email address: Mala.Murugesan@ouh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01295228553
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