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Location: Austin, TX (float position across the Austin area) | Schedule: Full-time contract, M-F 8am to 5 pm, with occasional availability needed for other daytime hours

Overview

A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract role with potential for perm placement. This float role supports multiple locations across the Austin, TX area and plays a key part in ensuring accurate, safe, and courteous specimen collection for patient care. The projected duration is 3 months, with potential for perm conversion.

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 the venipuncture process and other specimen collection methods (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
• Store specimen samples at required temperatures, place samples in appropriate collection containers/tubes, and accurately label and handle them per protocol 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 troubleshooting, training, and workflow recommendations
• Update patient information 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 of 1 year of experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED
• Clean driving record and reliable transportation

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available
• Mileage expenses paid

Why this role

This contract position, with a projected duration of 3 months and potential for perm placement, offers mileage reimbursement and access to benefits while working across multiple locations in the Austin area.