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Location: Oceanside, CA (with float coverage to Vista, CA and Encinitas, CA) | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, contract with potential for permanent placement; shifts fall between 6AM and 6PM Monday-Friday (8-hour shifts, exact start/end depending on location), with occasional weekend rotation (as little as one weekend per month) | Compensation: $20.25 per hour

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a Phlebotomist to support specimen collection and lab workflow across multiple patient service center locations. This is a contract role lasting approximately 3 months with the potential to convert to a permanent position, ideal for a detail-oriented professional comfortable working across sites and handling a variety of collection duties.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, and operate centrifuging equipment
• Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
• Update patient information in system records
• 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 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
• 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
• Float to other patient service center locations as needed

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
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED
• 1-4 years of experience
• Clean driving record
• Reliable transportation

Compensation and benefits

• $20.25 per hour
• Benefits are available
• Mileage expenses paid for travel between locations

Why this role

This position offers a defined contract term with the potential to become a permanent role, along with mileage reimbursement for travel between locations and available benefits.