Donor Carer Venepuncturist Full Time NEW

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.

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

On 1 April 2026, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.

As part of this transformation, NSS and NES have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.

About The Organisation

PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future. We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.

The Post

As a major division within Public Services Delivery Scotland, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) plays a vital role not only in the health of the people of Scotland but also on an international scale through our leading position in new product development, biomedical research and donor services.

As a Donor Carer Venepuncturist, your role will involve the following:

Delivering safe, high quality care to blood donors throughout the donation process

Carrying out health screening, haemoglobin testing and venepuncture in line with national clinical procedures

Monitoring donors during and after donation, responding calmly and appropriately to any adverse reactions

Providing a welcoming, reassuring and professional experience to encourage donor confidence and retention

Accurately record donor and donation information using IT systems to safeguard donor and patient safety

Preparing, labelling, checking and handling blood donations and equipment in accordance with SOPs and quality standards

Working independently at donation sessions while contributing to a supportive, mobile team environment

Supporting blood collection sessions across different locations, including evenings and weekends, to help deliver a safe and sufficient national blood supply

The Candidate

We are looking for a candidate who brings the following values, skills and attributes to their role:

Friendly, reliable and people focused, with a calm and reassuring approach

Comfortable following clinical procedures and delivering safe, high quality donor care

Confident supporting nervous donors and recognising when to seek nursing support

Able to use IT systems accurately and maintain clear, reliable records

Happy working independently as well as part of a close, supportive team

Able to participate with the unloading/unloading and assembling of our community session donation equipment.

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 also be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.

Location and Working Pattern:

While based at the Inverness Blood Donor Centre, this role includes extensive travel throughout the region, providing a varied working environment and the chance to make a real difference across multiple communities.

The role operates across a seven day service, Monday to Sunday, with a range of contractual working hours available. Flexibility is essential, as working hours will vary and will include weekend working and up to three late evenings per week. We’re happy to discuss working patterns at interview and answer any questions about rotas, locations and travel expectations. Our services operate when donors are available including evenings and weekends meaning your work directly supports local communities at the times they need us most.

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 PSD Scotland.

Benefits

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 –

Inclusion

Public Services Delivery Scotland is a national organisation 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. PSD Scotland has made 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 a number of equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are also an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, it is the aim of PSD Scotland to offer a fully accessible and inclusive recruitment service that supports applicants on their candidate journey. If you are interested in any reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruitment Team on NSS.wfrs@nhs.scot

Further Information

For an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the centre to meet the team, please contact Senior Charge Nurse Gillian Docherty (gillian.docherty3@nhs.scot) or Senior Nurse Manager Cara Grant (cara.grant@nhs.scot)

Closing date for completed applications is 11th May 2026

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).

We are an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies