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Location: Saint Petersburg, FL | Schedule: Contract, full-time, on-site, 6am-2:30pm M-F | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a Phlebotomist to support laboratory operations for a contract engagement with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection, handling, and patient service within a fast-paced clinical environment.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, centrifuge specimens, and record maintenance data and decontamination activities
• Update patient information and collect and store specimens according to established procedures
• Clearly and courteously explain the venipuncture process and other specimen collection methods (e.g., urine or fecal) as required
• Demonstrate technique using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
• Fully understand and follow physicians' orders
• Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes; label, centrifuge, split, and freeze specimens as required by test order
• Check all test requisitions or computer labels against scripts to ensure 100% accuracy
• Package specimens for transport
• Store specimen samples at required temperatures, place samples in appropriate collection containers/tubes, accurately label them, and follow protocols to maintain specimen integrity during transport
• Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
• Attend annual department trainings
• Answer telephone calls and communicate laboratory results to satisfy inquiries

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of experience
• Valid Phlebotomy certification for the state of employment, as required in some states
• Minimum of 6 months' work experience performing venipunctures in a fast-paced lab or hospital setting
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED

Why this role

This is a contract opportunity with a projected duration of 3 months and potential for permanent placement, offering hands-on experience in a fast-paced clinical laboratory setting.