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Phlebotomist 5674
All, Healthcare
Savannah, GA
Location: Savannah, GA and surrounding area (float, including travel to Port Royal, SC) | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, Monday-Saturday 8:00am-5:00pm (hours may vary); contract with potential for permanent placement, projected 3-month duration
Overview
A healthcare services provider is seeking a Phlebotomist to support laboratory operations across the Savannah, GA area, with travel to Port Royal, SC. This float role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection, patient care, and smooth lab workflow across multiple locations.
What you'll do
- Perform blood draws, label specimens, and centrifuge samples as required
- 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
- 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 according to required temperature and protocol to maintain specimen integrity
- Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
- Attend annual department trainings
- Answer telephone calls and relay laboratory results to satisfy inquiries
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
- 1-2+ years of experience
- Reliable transportation and a clean driving record
Compensation and benefits
- Benefits are available
- Mileage expenses paid
Why this role
This contract position offers the potential to transition to a permanent role, along with mileage reimbursement and available benefits.
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