Phlebotomist - Greymouth

**Casual opportunity for qualified or trainee phlebotomists**:

- ** Grow your career within a small experienced team in a busy diagnostic facility**:

- ** Familiarity with laboratory processes would be an advantage**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

You will work alongside 3 other phlebotomist’s based in the Blood Test Service on the Te Nikau campus. You will need to be flexible to accommodate our clients including home visits or collections in their car. On occasion the Te Nikau team provides cover for the Buller Phlebotomy team. A driver’s licence is essential.

In this role, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks including communicating with service users, blood collection in the Blood Test Service and hospital wards, processing specimens, data entry and responding to queries. You will be required to service wards in Te Nikau and perform community visits to Rest Homes and private residences.

You’ll be passionate about providing a high-quality service and be able to build trusted relationships with patients and their whānau.

**In this role, you will be responsible for**:

- Providing a high-quality service to clients
- Collecting blood samples from inpatients and outpatients within the service
- Registering samples into the Delphic Laboratory Information System
- Carrying out processes required for the pre-analytical processing of samples
- Interpretation and input of request forms
- Checking of data for accuracy and information
- Liaising with staff, patients and referrers effectively
- Maintaining knowledge and on-going education in Phlebotomy

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**

Your skills will include:

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Bring proactive and taking initiative
- The ability to pick up and use technology and software systems
- Registration with the Medical Sciences Council is preferred but not essential, as training will be provided.

**Mō mātou | About Us**
- Ehara taku I toa takitahi engari, he toa takitini_
- My strength is not the strength of one, it is the strength of many_
- “Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi_ - _Putting people at the heart of all we do”_

We are committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles by ensuring our partnership with Māori are at the forefront of all our conversations. We believe in improving, promoting, and protecting the health and well-being of the West Coast and the Canterbury community.

The culture at Te Tai o Poutini West Coast, is driven by our **ā Mātou Uara (Our Values)**:

- Care and respect for others - Manaaki me te whakaute i te tangata.
- Integrity in all we do - Hāpai i ā mātou mahi katoa i runga i te pono.
- Responsibility for outcomes - Te Takohanga i ngā hua

We are unique and like no other in New Zealand with a close-knit community where your work will make a real difference. We will help you grow in rural health with a continued focus on your career development. We continue to break new ground and shape our health system to wrap care around patients in their communities.

**Ngā** **hua | Benefits of working at Te Tai o Poutini West Coast**

Living on the West Coast offers a superb lifestyle and a great work life balance. No more city congestion bike or even walk to work. If you enjoy the outdoors - the mountains, sea, rivers and lakes await you. Still need a bit of the city, Christchurch is only 3 hours’ drive away. There are real opportunities to step onto the housing ladder, as our most recently engaged employees can attest to.

When you work at the Te Tai o Poutini West Coast, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your journey. We offer great coaching, mentoring and learning outcomes for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have amazing discounts from select retailers, restaurants and businesses. At Te Tai o Poutini West Coast you are part of something greater than yourself and encouraged to be your unique self.

We have a range of clinical and non-clinical roles at WCDHB and CDHB, there could be a place for you

Please visit our careers website for other roles and find your ideal fit within the West Coast or Canterbury District Health Board.

**The Future of the Health Industry**

**Nau mai, haere mai, tauti mai**
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