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Phlebotomist 5920
Healthcare
Colonial Heights, VA
Location: Colonial Heights, VA | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, Monday–Friday 7:45am-4:30pm | Compensation: Not specified
Overview
A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist to join its laboratory team on a contract basis, with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and processing to support patient care across a diverse population.
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
- Check all test requisitions or computer labels against scripts to ensure 100% accuracy
- Package specimens for transport
- Store specimen samples at required temperatures, place in appropriate containers/tubes, label accurately, and follow protocols 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
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
- Experience working with patients ranging from young adults to geriatrics
- Hard stick experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- High School Diploma or GED
Compensation and benefits
- Benefits are available
Why this role
This is a contract opportunity with potential for permanent placement, offering available benefits and a consistent Monday–Friday schedule.
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