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Location: Birmingham, AL | Schedule: Contract, full-time, on-site, Wednesday-Tuesday 1PM-11PM, projected 3-month duration | Compensation: Benefits available

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist to join its laboratory team on a contract basis. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and handling, supporting quality patient care across pediatric and geriatric populations.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, and centrifuge samples as required
• Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
• Update patient information accurately
• Collect and store specimens according to established procedures
• Clearly and courteously explain venipuncture and other specimen collection processes (e.g., urine or fecal) to patients
• Demonstrate proper 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
• Verify all test requisitions or computer labels against scripts to ensure 100% accuracy
• Package specimens for transport
• Store specimen samples at required temperatures, place in appropriate containers/tubes, and label accurately, following protocol-specific procedures to maintain specimen integrity during transport
• Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
• Attend annual department training sessions
• Answer telephone calls and relay laboratory results to satisfy inquiries
• Assist with various assigned duties, troubleshooting, training, and workflow recommendations

Required qualifications

• 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
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Pediatric and geriatric experience required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This contract position offers the opportunity to apply specialized phlebotomy skills, including pediatric and geriatric experience, in a fast-paced healthcare setting with available benefits.