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Location: Clifton Park, NY | Schedule: Full-time, on-site; Mon - Fri, 7am - 4pm, with every other Sat, 7am - 12:30pm | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services organization is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist to join its laboratory team on a contract basis, with strong potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate, safe, and efficient specimen collection and handling in a fast-paced clinical environment.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, and operate centrifuges as part of daily duties
• Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
• Update patient information and collect and store specimens according to established procedures
• Clearly and courteously explain the venipuncture and other specimen collection processes (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 samples at required temperatures, and follow protocol-specific procedures to maintain specimen integrity
• 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 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

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This contract position, projected to last 3 months, offers strong potential for conversion to a permanent role, along with available benefits.