# Phlebotomist (Bournemouth)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Poole
- **Region:** South West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Healthcare support worker
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 pa/pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 25 hours per week (Includes Weekends)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08T11:03:25.001Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Bournemouth/University_Hospitals_Dorset_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Phlebotomy/Phlebotomy-v8067536
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8067536?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhd.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Do you have the skills and personality to join our phlebotomy team?

University Hospitals Dorset has an opening for an experienced Phlebotomist.

Do you have good literacy, numeracy and communication skills? Will you be able to work within a team and under your own initiative in this busy service?

This role is physically demanding, requiring you to have great attention to detail and accuracy when performing venepuncture. Are you looking for a career and are you passionate about patient care? Then this is the role for you.

The service operates between 07.30-16.30 Monday to Friday; 7.30-12.00 Saturday and Sunday and bank holidays.

Additional contact information

Paula Hughes

\[email protected\] or 0300 019 4785.

Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Interview Date:  28th July 2026

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- To carry out duties / responsibilities in accordance with the Trust and Directorate Policies, Protocols including Health and Safety Policies.
- To greet patients in a courteous and professional manner.
- To check the relevant details of patients requiring Pathology tests, resolving and outstanding difficulties.
- Obtain by venepuncture or capillary sampling the correct blood specimens(s).
- Ensure samples are correctly labelled, put into the correct containers and otherwise properly treated so as to be suitable for the analyses requested.

## Person Specification

### Education

**Essential**

- Maths and English GCSE Qualifications
- Additional Qualifications

**Desirable**

- Full list of school qualifications.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Previous phlebotomy experience within a patient setting.
- Previous experience of working in a large team.

**Desirable**

- Venepuncture certificate within the last 12 months.

### Fully completed

**Essential**

- Full employment history
- Phlebotomy experience listed

**Desirable**

- 2 years working as a Phlebotomist.

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10358534)
- [ps (pdf, 213.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10362054)
- [dbs - faqs (pdf, 102.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2417)

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