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Location: Mount Olive, NC | Schedule: Full-time contract, on-site, 9am-6pm M-F | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services employer is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a 3 month contract assignment with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and handling in support of patient care and laboratory testing operations.

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 venipuncture and other specimen collection processes (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 using appropriate containers and labeling
• 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

Required qualifications

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

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This 3 month contract position offers the potential to convert to a permanent role, with benefits available during the assignment.