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Location: Asheville, NC | Schedule: Full-time contract, on-site, 8-hour shift between 6AM–6PM M-F | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract role based in Asheville, NC. This position plays a key part in patient care by ensuring accurate, safe, and efficient specimen collection and handling across multiple local sites. The assignment is projected to last approximately 3 months.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, and operate centrifuge equipment
• Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
• Update patient information accurately
• Collect and store specimens according to established procedures
• Explain venipuncture and other specimen collection processes (e.g., urine or fecal) clearly and courteously to patients
• Demonstrate technique using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
• Understand and follow physicians' orders fully
• Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes; label, centrifuge, split, and freeze specimens as required
• Check all test requisitions or computer labels against scripts to ensure 100% accuracy
• Package specimens properly for transport
• Store specimens at required temperatures 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 relay laboratory results to satisfy inquiries
• Float to other locations in Asheville and travel to Hendersonville and Clyde 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
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Adult and geriatric experience required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED
• Clean driving record and reliable transportation
• Must be available for an 8-hour shift between 6AM and 6PM, Monday through Friday

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available
• Mileage expense paid

Why this role

This role offers a 3-month contract opportunity with mileage reimbursement and available benefits, ideal for an experienced phlebotomist comfortable working across multiple local sites.