🚀 COURSE CONTENT
Our Paediatric Phlebotomy training is designed to help experienced phlebotomists confidently and safely take blood from children and babies. You’ll learn the key differences between adult and paediatric procedures — from consent and psychology to specialist equipment and pain relief techniques.
🧠 Learn at your own pace with our comprehensive online course
🤝 Get hands-on experience with our optional face-to-face session
Whether you choose the online-only option or add the practical session, you’ll receive a CPD-certified certificate and expert instruction tailored to working with younger patients.
Select the option above that best your needs:
✅ Online-Only Course
✅ Online Course + Face-to-Face Session
DATES
Face-to-face courses are held once every 4 months.
📅 Sunday, 20th July 2025
📅 Sunday, 16th November 2025
You will be able to choose a date for your face-to-face session before you complete your checkout.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
📜 Legal aspects of consent in minors
🧠 Child and infant psychology
🩸 Paediatric physiology differences
💊 Paediatric pain relief strategies
🧪 Blood test types for children and babies
🛠️ Specialist equipment for small-volume draws
💡 The face-to-face session gives you the chance to practise everything in real life using training arms, mannequins, and real kit.
👩⚕️ WHO IS IT FOR?
Perfect for experienced phlebotomists who want to extend their skill set to include:
🧒 Children
👶 Infants
👶 Neonates
Whether you’re working in clinics, hospitals, or the community, this course builds your confidence in delivering safe and effective care to paediatric patients.
🛠 EQUIPMENT
During the optional face-to-face session, you’ll have the opportunity to get hands-on with:
💊 Topical analgesics
🐝 ‘Buzzy’ pain relief device
🩸 Lancets
🧪 Micro-Tainers
🧫 Capillary tubes
🧬 Guthrie cards
🦋 Butterfly needles
You’ll also practise appropriate patient positioning using mannequins and training arms, and you’ll have the opportunity to perform finger prick techniques on your fellow students for realistic practice.
⏰ TIMINGS
The online section takes around 3–4 hours to complete at your own pace.
The optional face-to-face session is usually scheduled in the afternoon, directly after the CPD Basic Life Support (BLS) for Phlebotomists course in the morning.
🕜 Course starts at 13:30, and depending on group size, typically finishes around 16:30–17:00.
💸 Bundle & Save: Book both the CPD Paediatric Phlebotomy and CPD Basic Life Support courses together for £225 (normally £250) — that’s a £25 saving and two CPD certificates in one day!
🧑🤝🧑 GROUP SIZES
We keep face-to-face classes small for focused, hands-on support.
👥 Minimum: 2 learners
👥 Maximum: 8 learners
📜 ACCREDITATION
Our courses, provided by iN phlebotomy training, are CPD certified and internationally recognised. Whether you choose to attend the face-to-face session or not, you will receive the same certificate.
This course counts as 5 CPD hours.
☕ REFRESHMENTS
Lunch and drinks provided, and many locations have a kettle and microwave on site.
Of course if you choose the online-only option, you can take as many breaks as you want.
🍽 Let us know if you have any dietary needs!
📍 LOCATIONS
Training available at:
📌 Bakersfield Medical Centre, Nottingham
🏢 COURSES AT YOUR PREMISES (£750 + VAT)
We can also come to your workplace to train up to 6 staff members at a time, who will all have access to the online content too.
✅ Combine with other half-day courses (like CPD BLS or CPD IV Cannulation)
✅ Or run it twice in one day for two different groups
Or you can opt to just enrol your staff on the online only content, in which case multiple members of staff can be enrolled at a discount.
📞 Contact us to discuss your needs.
