Phlebotomist

Location: Due West, SC | Schedule: Contract, full-time, on-site, M-F 8a-5p | Compensation: Not specified

Overview

A healthcare laboratory services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract assignment projected to last 3 months, with potential for permanent placement. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and handling in support of patient care and diagnostic testing.

What you'll do

• Perform blood draws, label specimens, centrifuge specimens, and record maintenance data and decontamination activities
• Update patient information as needed
• Collect and store specimens according to established procedures
• Clearly and courteously explain the venipuncture process and other specimen collection methods (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 specimen samples at required temperatures, place samples in appropriate collection containers/tubes, label accurately, and follow protocol-specific procedures 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
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• High School Diploma or GED with a minimum of 1 year of experience

Compensation and benefits

• Benefits are available

Why this role

This is a contract opportunity projected to last 3 months with the potential to become a permanent position, offering the chance to apply phlebotomy skills in a fast-paced clinical setting while benefits are available.