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Location: Ocala, FL | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, M-F 6:30am-3:00pm | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract engagement in Ocala, FL, projected to last 3 months with potential for permanent hire. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and smooth laboratory workflow in a fast-paced clinical environment.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, centrifuge samples, 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 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, following proper temperature and container protocols to maintain specimen integrity
• Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
• Attend annual department training sessions
• Answer telephone calls and relay laboratory results to satisfy inquiries

Required qualifications

• Valid Phlebotomy certification for the state of employment, as required in some states
• Minimum 6 months of work experience performing venipunctures in a fast-paced lab or hospital setting
• Minimum 2 years of experience overall
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This is a contract opportunity projected to last 3 months, with the potential to become permanent, offering a chance to apply hands-on phlebotomy skills in a structured, fast-paced clinical setting.