Professional:
- Assess problems presented opportunistically by patients.
- Provide a safe, high quality and accessible phlebotomy service to the practice population.
- Perform venipunctures and capillary punctures to obtain blood samples from patients.
- Properly label, store, and prepare specimens for laboratory testing and transportation.
- Verify patient identification and medical records before performing procedures.
- Educate patients on the blood draw process and answer any questions.
- Maintain accurate records of patient interactions and specimen collections.
- Follow infection control and safety protocols to ensure a sterile environment.
- Assist with clerical duties, such as scheduling appointments and updating patient records.
- Ensure infection control guidelines are maintained.
- Communicate effectively with other members of the primary health care team.
- Preserve confidentiality.
- Any other duties considered relevant to the post.
Managerial:
- Assist patients to identify their health needs.
- Responsible for the maintenance of equipment and stock control.
- Manage and organise individual patient consultations.
- Attend staff meetings.
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Preserve confidentiality of information gained at all times.
Educational:
- Identify personal development and training needs in conjunction with the Nurse Manager.
- Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and or professional development.
Health and Safety:
- The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include.
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
- Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Confidentiality:
- The post holder must maintain confidentiality of information in accordance with professional and PML policy.
- The post holder may access information only on a need-to-know basis in the direct discharge of duties and divulge information only in the proper course of duties.
Safeguarding:
- To recognise that promoting the welfare and safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyones business and access training and supervision as appropriate to the role.
- To support the organisation in ensuring service users are protected from abuse or the risk of abuse and their human rights are respected and upheld.
- To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the organisations Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures.
Personal/Professional Development:
- The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- This may mean study in staff members own time.
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
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