Job Description

Job Overview

Modality Partnership East Surrey Division has a part-time/ full-time vacancy (25 hours to 37.5 hours per week) for a phlebotomist. The postholder will be a high performing Phlebotomist working at Birchwood Medical Practice. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

This job is suitable for individuals who enjoy interacting with patients, delivering high quality patient care, and look forward to working closely with the nursing team and wider practice team. Salary for this role is 12.50-14.50 per hour.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Flexible working

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident, who demonstrate effective communication, excellent customer service skills, good IT skills and the ability to support patients with interventions and/or queries. The post-holder will be responsible for performing venepuncture to obtain blood samples from patients only as the result of a direct referral from a GP or nurse / nurse practitioner, working strictly in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols. Assist and support care delivery by only undertaking delegated work that is within own level skill and competence.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.

You will be a key member of the practice team, ensuring that the patient is as comfortable and relaxed as possible and will collect sample(s) of blood in accordance with protocols and procedures, ensuring samples are stored in appropriate containers, accurate and legible labelling of all samples to confirm patient identity, checking patient identification against GP/nurse request and confirming with patient wherever possible, recording collection of blood sample in patient record in accordance with practice procedure, ensuring that samples are dispatched to the appropriate laboratories in a timely fashion, ensuring that anomalies are reported to a senior member of staff, notifying the clinical team of any significant patient issues and undertake training and development as required in line with the responsibilities of the post and practice policies, duties will include but not be limited to:

Ensuring that the patient is as comfortable and relaxed as possible and confirming their agreement to the collection of a blood sample.

Collection of sample(s) of blood in accordance with protocols and procedures.

Ensuring samples are stored in appropriate containers.

Accurate, legible labelling of all samples to confirm patient identity.

Checking patient identification against GP/nurse request and confirming with patient wherever possible.

Recording collection of blood sample in patient record in accordance with practice procedure.

Ensuring that samples are dispatched to the appropriate laboratories in a timely fashion.

Ensuring that anomalies are reported to a senior member of staff

Notifying the clinical team of any significant patient issues

Undertake training and development as required in line with the responsibilities of the post and practice policies.

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

Vaccinations

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification:

What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?

Qualifications and Experience:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Knowledge and experience

Working in a primary or secondary care setting

Data input

Information gathering

Confidentiality

Essential Criteria-

Recent previous experience in direct patient care.

Phlebotomy skills

Proficient in Blood pressure monitoring

Ability to follow guidelines and protocols.

Basic IT knowledge and skills

Demonstrates understanding of person-centred care

Willing to develop clinical skills and competency relevant to the role

Experience in venepuncture position

Able to work under pressure with minimal supervision

Experience of dealing with the public/patients in a caring environment

Aware of need for strict infection prevention control

Experience of Microsoft Office software

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Good oral and written communication skills

Good organisational skills

Ability to work within a team

Ability to work alone

Ability to manage situations and environments

BP checks

Pulse checks

Phlebotomy/advanced

Chaperoning duties

Health promotion

Personal Qualities

Professional approach to work

Strong team player

Smart appearance

Exercises tact and discretion at all times

Demonstrates initiative to handle any unforeseen events during a shift

Demonstrates flexibility towards new working practices and towards working hours

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 12.50-14.50 per hour

Expected hours: 25 - 37.5 per week

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 12/05/2025
Reference ID: Phlebotomist