Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Community Phlebotomist

The closing date is 29 August 2025

Job summary

Are you ready to make a difference in Milton Keynes?

We are looking for a Community phlebotomist to join our team. Are you passionate about care being delivered in and closer to peoples homes?If so then this is the role for you. We are a supportive team who's aim is to ensure everyone has a voice to shape our services and opportunities to develop professionally. We are looking for someone with passion and enthusiasm to drive our service line forward in a fast paced environment. The post holder will work in partnership with the District Nursing team.

Main duties of the job

The Community Nursing service is developing within this dynamic and proactive climate working within a culture of collaboration and joint working with social service, acute and intermediate care. We offer on-going professional development and have a challenging agenda for the years ahead, which means that we are an exciting organisation to join.Are you caring, compassionate and committed to providing the best service possible to patients?Do you want to help deliver care to people in their own homes and work with supportive, skilled teams while you do it?Our aim is to recruit the best Community Phlebotomist so that we can continue to develop and provide the best patient care. Candidates should demonstrate some experience of providing care as a Phlebotomist or Health Care Assistant. You will be required to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car for work.

About us

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

In return we can offer:

Flexible working
Buy & Sell Annual Leave
An attractive pension scheme (including a tax-free lump sum on retirement and family benefits for dependants; ill health retirement benefits; and life assurance cover of twice your annual pay).
Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
Staying Well at Work service for tailored employment related support to staff with severe and long term mental health problems
Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network Disabled Employees Network
Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
Carers at Work Network
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BAME)
Salary sacrifice

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

333-D-MK-CM-1167

Job locations

South hub, Bletchley Community Hospital

Whalley Drive

Bletchley, Milton Keynes

MK3 6EN

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work in partnership with District Nursing teams specifically to obtain blood samples from patients in their own homes as requested by General Practitioners. To accept delegated responsibility for venepuncture from District Nurses.
To undertake other tasks as delegated by the District Nurse provided these are within the post holders competencies and relevant training has been undertaken.
Work independently without direct supervision.
To provide venepuncture training as required for Community Nursing team members.
To contribute to administrative, clinical and other service duties as required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work in partnership with District Nursing teams specifically to obtain blood samples from patients in their own homes as requested by General Practitioners. To accept delegated responsibility for venepuncture from District Nurses.
To undertake other tasks as delegated by the District Nurse provided these are within the post holders competencies and relevant training has been undertaken.
Work independently without direct supervision.
To provide venepuncture training as required for Community Nursing team members.
To contribute to administrative, clinical and other service duties as required.

Person Specification

Key Skills/Abilities

Essential

Communication skills
Organisational skills
Accuracy
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to prioritise a changing workload
Ability to follow procedural guidance
Ability to pass on knowledge and skills to others
Venepuncture

Experience

Essential

previous experience in phlebotomist role
Community Experience
Team working

Desirable

Phlebotomy experience
NHS Experience
Systmone Experience

Personal disposition

Essential

Good communicator - written and verbal
Able to work unsupervised as well as part of a team
Reliable
Enthusiastic
Full driving license and use of car for work purposes
Able to be flexible in relation to hours worked

Person Specification

Key Skills/Abilities

Essential

Communication skills
Organisational skills
Accuracy
Ability to work under pressure
Ability to prioritise a changing workload
Ability to follow procedural guidance
Ability to pass on knowledge and skills to others
Venepuncture

Experience

Essential

previous experience in phlebotomist role
Community Experience
Team working

Desirable

Phlebotomy experience
NHS Experience
Systmone Experience

Personal disposition

Essential

Good communicator - written and verbal
Able to work unsupervised as well as part of a team
Reliable
Enthusiastic
Full driving license and use of car for work purposes
Able to be flexible in relation to hours worked

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South hub, Bletchley Community Hospital

Whalley Drive

Bletchley, Milton Keynes

MK3 6EN

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South hub, Bletchley Community Hospital

Whalley Drive

Bletchley, Milton Keynes

MK3 6EN

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)