Help me get this Phlebotomist Role

[dillydelight]

Please!

I have been trying to find a phlebotomist role that does not require experience for so long.

The manager has an email address and it says informal visits are allowed.

Should I email her directly, as I really want to stand out.

I have become disabled and I know this role will help me keep working both physically and mentally.

Also if anyone has any advice on how to get into the Phlebotomist role it would be very much appreciated.

Yes, I think that emailing to arrange an informal visit as offered will show that you're keen.

Good luck!

Definitely visit. Swot up on the nhs six Cs…..might be the 8 Ps now! It’s changed I think. Talk about patient centred care, the need for confidentiality, following procedures, maintaining infection control. Being organised, methodical.

Definitely email expressing interest in the role and ask to go for an informal chat if you can. Use it as an opportunity to ask what key things they’re looking for in a successful applicant, the challenges you might face Ian’s how the role/team interacts with other healthcare professionals/ patients. This will help structure your application and prep for interview.

if it’s an NHS trust, look up the trust values and memorise them, thinking if times you’ve demonstrated those qualities.

practise the STAR technique when answering your questions.

good luck

how much experience r do you have?

Oh really helpful, I would not have known or thought of those things.

I am not very good at interviews, as I get brain fog even after prepping. The only thing is I am not sure if I should just submit my application as the end date and interview are very soon.

I am not very good at applications, so if I don't get this I wonder if I could pay someone to help me.

I have no experience @contactus

@contactus This role says you will be trained

Could anyone advise any other ways to get these roles should I not get this one?

Oh well this role is not suitable for the disabled!

I had bloods by a Phlebotomist in hospital. You guys are amazing, the nurses, drs couldn't get a vein but they did (I had renal failure and was severely dehydrated).

I've no experience to help you, but I think contacting and arranging a visit would go down well, it gets you known before any interviews. Good Luck!!

Hi Pieona,

I can't go fit it now as the role said it involves lifting boxes up to 20kg and I can't do that. I need a seated position.

They may well be able to make allowances for that OP. Don't let it put you off applying

Oh that would be good. I may as well in that case!

Apply! What's the worse that can happen? They say no. So you're no worse off than you are now, but if they say yes and you get an interview you're good to go!

True @PieonaBarm. Hopefully the application isn't one of those that takes hours/days and then they don't even have the common courtesy to reply!

Contact the recruiting manage to say that you are interested, and discuss your disability. If you have ideas of how the role activities might be adapted to aloe you to go it, even better.

With the application form, work your way through all the essential and desirable criteria showing how you meet them - draw on all areas of your experience if you don't have direct experience of the role and look for transferable skills. Do tick to say you have a disability as many places will offer you an interview if you meet the essential criteria and have a disability. They may be able to make reasonable adjustments to support your disability if you're the best candidate on the day. Nothing ventured and all that.

your disability will mean that they have to interview you

are you registered disabled?

Why do you want to be a phlebotomist?

I go to phlebotomist fairly regularly and they don’t sit about. They are always moving around from chair to chair or bed to bed etc and none of them sit down to hook me up. I think you need to look elsewhere sorry.

Still contact them to discuss it. Your are disabled and therefore any role may require reasonable adjustments, it isn't as though you are saying you can't be arsed to move boxes!

See what they say. Then for application or interview as others have said look up trust values, look at the NMC code, although not a nurse much of it will apply and give you insight in to expected behaviours and practice.

Many trusts interview on a values based system so ask questions based on "gives an example of a time when..." Which may be able team work, difficult situations, going above and beyond, equality and diversity etc. So it can be a good idea to think of situations you've been in and pull some good examples and make sure you map your answers to the trust values.

Don't let job descriptions put you off applying, they are rarely written with disability in mind but you should still be considered. Unless you are blind and trying to perform neurosurgery.

Find out about the trusts values.
Read and re read the job description and personal specification. Definitely go for an informal visit.

As others have said, they may be able to waive the lifting as a reasonable adjustment. However you may need to be on your feet a lot & walk between wards & depts.

I'd bone up on
Confidentiality
Accuracy - you will need to check important details
Infection prevention
Consent
Safe sharps procedures
What to do if a patient fainted.
How to handle a nervous patient.
What you would do differently with children.

Sometimes I end up kneeling on the floor to take blood. Often have to squeeze into small spaces. Yes you should adhere to health and safety but you do what you can to make your patient comfortable.
Not sure if I’ve ever sat down to take blood. It just doesn’t work like that