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Location: Lebanon, KY | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, 8am-5pm M-F | Compensation: Benefits available

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist to support its laboratory operations on a contract basis for a projected duration of 3 months, with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and processing, directly supporting patient care and diagnostic workflows.

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
• Check all test requisitions or computer labels against scripts to ensure 100% accuracy
• Package specimens for transport and store samples at required temperatures
• Place samples in appropriate collection 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 troubleshooting, training, and workflow recommendations

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years 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

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

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