Phlebotomist-Certified

Phlebotomist-Certified

Identify patients and match those patients with test requests, performing sample collection and providing a pleasant patient experience and quality specimens to the laboratory; Accept specimens from other departments and villages and transmit samples and receive results from various reference laboratories.

Uphold the organization's vision, mission, and corporate values. Demonstrate understanding of and compliance with organization's policies, procedures, code of conduct and work rules.

Essential functions include ensuring absolute patient identification and match with required test; perform specimen collection, ensuring high customer service and strict attention to accuracy, integrity, and quality. Receive specimens from other NSHC entities, ensuring quality of specimens. Schedule patients for testing to maximize best use of laboratory resources while making the best possible accommodation for the needs of the patients. Perform drug testing and waived screening. Prepare specimens for shipment to reference laboratories. Perform other duties as assigned.

Personal traits include consistently demonstrating the organization's values: integrity, cultural sensitivity and respect for traditional values, continual learning and improving, compassion, teamwork and pride. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, accountability, cooperation with and consideration of others.

Required knowledge includes general knowledge of typical office technologies such as computers, printers, copiers, fax machines, and typical office software. Job specific knowledge includes exposure precautions and sharps handling techniques.

Required skills and abilities include a broad range of skills and abilities centered around a strong patient focus, efficient performance, and teamwork. All employees should have patient/customer service skills, interpersonal skills and good communication skills. All employees should have the ability to manage their time and organize their work to ensure efficient performance. In addition, all employees should have the ability to follow policy, procedure and instructions, actively communicate with their supervisors to ensure understanding and manage their work accordingly. Finally, all employees should have the ability to understand and manage patient/customer confidentiality. Job specific skills and abilities include above average computer skills, good interpersonal relationships, and above average customer service skills.

Minimum requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, 1 year of working as a phlebotomist or in a related field, and AMT, ASCP, or appropriate phlebotomy training certificate.

Physical requirements include use hands and arms to operate office or clinical equipment, sit less than half the workday, stand and/or walk more than half the workday, bend, stretch, twist, crouch and/or reach, view electronic monitors for prolonged periods of time, use hands and arms for repetitive motion tasks, lift or carry unaided less than 25 pounds, push or pull with up to moderate force, see and hear with normal acuity. Working conditions include work conducted in a standard clinical environment to include exposure to latex, biohazard or other harmful substances. Travel is not required.