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Job summary

Main area
Phlebotomy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (weekends/bank holidays)
Job ref
214-CSTO-7189322
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£24,169 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Phlebotomist

NHS AfC: Band 2

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

Join Our Team as a Phlebotomist at Sherwood Forest Hospitals!

Are you passionate about patient care and looking to make a real difference? We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated Phlebotomist to join our team and contribute to the highest standards of healthcare.

Why This Role?

  • Essential Impact: Play a crucial role in supporting top-quality patient care through your expertise and dedication.
  • Diverse Experience: Perform venepuncture in various settings, including cross-site work, ensuring safe and efficient blood sample collection.
  • Professional Growth: Be part of a team that values continuous improvement and professional standards.

What You’ll Do:

  • Patient Care: Ensure blood samples are collected safely and efficiently, maintaining the highest standards of care.
  • Operational Support: Manage consumable stock levels to support the smooth operation of our services.
  • Team Collaboration: Work alongside a dedicated team to deliver an efficient, high-quality service to our patients.

If you’re committed to excellence and eager to contribute to a dynamic healthcare environment, we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • High Levels of Accuracy
  • Good General Education
  • Good communication skills. Verbal and Written
  • Understanding patient needs and concerns
  • Good levels of literacy and numeracy
  • Good organisational skills.
Desirable criteria
  • Medical Terminology.
  • Previous experience in a clinical environment

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • On-going
Desirable criteria
  • Venepuncture

Experience

Desirable criteria
  • Phlebotomy

Contractual Requirements

Desirable criteria
  • Cover colleagues when required

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natalie Taylor
Job title
Outpatient and Phlebotomy Sister
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
Additional information

Sue Dyson - phlebotomy lead. Ext 6624

Natalie Taylor  Department Sister. Ext 5844

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