Laboratory Assistant I

Phlebotomist

SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital is hiring a Full-Time Evening-Shift Phlebotomist to join our care team. This position works five 8-hour shifts per week schedule 2:00 PM - 10:30 PM with rotating holidays and weekends.

Starting pay is $15.96 per hour with the opportunity to increase based on experience. Qualified external candidates are eligible for a $2,000 sign-on bonus. Preferred candidates will have at least one year of phlebotomy experience.

Sign-on bonuses are for qualified external candidates. Internal candidates should check with their recruiter to discuss available options.

All the duties and standards of this position will be performed according to established policies, procedures and guidelines within the department and the health system. These examples of work are not all-encompassing or restrictive and are expected to vary with changing needs and priorities. The duties for a specific position with this title will be defined and assigned by the immediate department director/manager.

Job responsibilities and requirements include performing duties in phlebotomy, processing, transporting, posting and/or billing, ancillary testing, anatomical pathology, blood bank, special testing and microbiology, or other departments with the pathology laboratory following prescribed procedures. The assistant laboratory I processes patients, specimens, orders, reports, requests; assists pathologists and residents in the performance of autopsies, collects and transports specimens in a courteous, timely and accurate manner. Refers unusual problems to appropriate superior. Sets priorities with changing workload to insure the final reporting of test results are within prescribed time limits.

Job accountabilities and performance criteria include accurately and precisely performing duties following clinical procedures and standards, ensuring that patient identification information matches test request information consistently, performing routine, timed, and STAT venipuncture or capillary sticks from any patient, correctly labeling tubes and requisitions consistently, processing patients, specimens, orders, reports, requests; collecting and transporting specimens in a courteous, timely and accurate manner, and more.

Job specifications include education and training, licensing/registration/certification, experience, skills and abilities, and physical requirements/working conditions.