Phlebotomist

Location: Rockville, MD | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, M-F 8am - 4:30pm | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare services organization is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract engagement with a projected duration of 3 months and potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection, handling, and patient care support within a laboratory or clinical setting.

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 proper technique using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
• Fully understand and follow all 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 specimens at required temperatures, place samples 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 read laboratory results to satisfy inquiries

Required qualifications

• Valid Phlebotomy certification for the state of employment, as required in some states
• Minimum of 5 work experience performing venipunctures in a fast-paced lab or hospital setting
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED
• Minimum of 2 years of experience

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This contract position in Rockville, MD has a projected duration of 3 months with the potential to transition into a permanent role, and benefits are available during the engagement.