Search Jobs
Phlebotomist 5866
All, Healthcare
Lawndale, NC
Location: Lawndale, NC | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, 8am-5pm M-F | Compensation: Not specified
Overview
A healthcare services provider is seeking a Phlebotomist to join its laboratory team on a contract basis, with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and processing that supports patient care and diagnostic testing.
What you'll do
- Perform blood draws, label specimens, centrifuge specimens, and record maintenance data and decontamination activities
- 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) to patients
- Demonstrate technique using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
- Fully understand and follow all 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 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 respond to 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 1 year of experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- High School Diploma or GED
Compensation and benefits
- Benefits are available
Why this role
This is a contract position with a projected duration of 3 months, with potential for permanent placement, offering hands-on experience in a fast-paced laboratory or hospital setting.
"*" indicates required fields