Donor Carer Venepuncturist

Overview

Join Our Team – Become a Donor Carer Venepuncturist with NHS National Services Scotland!

Are you passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a real difference to patients across Scotland? Our Donor Carer team plays a vital role in ensuring a safe and sufficient blood supply, supporting donation sessions across the country. We’re looking for caring, confident, and motivated individuals with excellent communication skills and a commitment to high-quality patient care. As a Donor Carer, you’ll work directly with donors, carrying out venepuncture, providing reassurance, and ensuring every donation experience is safe, comfortable, and positive.

If you’re enthusiastic, people focused, and keen to be part of a collaborative, supportive team, we’d love to hear from you.

National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating at the heart of NHSScotland, providing support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and offers shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland, working in partnership with Health and Social Care to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions and systems.

As a major division within NSS, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) plays a vital role in Scotland and internationally through our leadership in product development, biomedical research and donor services. Our goal is to maintain the highest standards of patient care while remaining internationally competitive.

We are looking for a Donor Carer Venepuncturist to join our community teams who provide a high standard of care to our donors. You should be friendly, enjoy meeting people and be willing to work as part of a team. As Donor Carer Venepuncturist, you’ll care for donors through the blood donation process, loading/unloading and assembling our community session donation equipment.

• Knowledge of health care or other customer focused environments is essential.
• Standard keyboard skills are essential.
• Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.

• The successful candidate will be required to undergo a PVG Scheme Disclosure Scotland check.
• Any candidate who has lived/worked overseas for more than 12 months in the preceding 5 years will be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.

The position is based in the Inverness Blood Donor Centre; however extensive travel throughout the region is required.

Monday to Sunday, 21 hours per week. You must be flexible and willing to work variable hours. Hours will include weekends and as many as three late evenings a week.

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.

Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.

NSS is a national board and, as an anchor institution, it is our ambition to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone feels welcome. We recognise that flexible working creates an inclusive workplace where employees can thrive and feel confident about their ability to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. This is supported through Once for Scotland flexible working policies.

NSS has a long-term commitment to staff health and well-being and offers many learning and development opportunities to support and improve our approaches to diversity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. There are equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are an equal opportunities employer and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.

NSS is an accredited Disability Confident Leader and aims to offer a fully…