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Location: Yakima, WA | Schedule: Full-time, contract, on-site (Monday–Friday, 8-5 or 10/10:30AM-7PM, schedule being finalized) | Compensation: Benefits available

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract position with strong potential to convert to a permanent role. This is an opportunity to join a clinical laboratory team supporting both pediatric and geriatric patient populations, playing a key role in accurate specimen collection and quality patient care.

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 venipuncture and other specimen collection procedures (e.g., urine or fecal) to patients
• 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
• Assist with various assigned duties, troubleshooting, training, and workflow recommendations

Required qualifications

• Experience with pediatrics and geriatrics
• 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 offers the potential to become permanent, along with available benefits, for a phlebotomist experienced in both pediatric and geriatric care.