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Location: Asheville, NC | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, 7:30am-4:30pm M-F, contract role with a projected duration of 3 months | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services organization is seeking a Spanish-speaking phlebotomist with geriatric experience to support specimen collection operations on a contract basis. This role is essential to ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant blood draws and specimen handling for patient care.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, centrifuge specimens, and record maintenance data and decontamination activities
• Update patient information as needed
• 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, and follow protocol-specific procedures to maintain specimen integrity during transport
• Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
• Attend annual department trainings
• Answer telephone calls and read laboratory results to satisfy inquiries

Required qualifications

• Must speak Spanish
• Requires geriatric 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
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This contract position, scheduled 7:30am-4:30pm M-F for 3 months, offers benefits available, allowing a skilled phlebotomist to apply Spanish-language and geriatric care experience in a fast-paced clinical setting.