Night Phlebotomist & Lab Assistant

Jefferson Health Northeast; United States; On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plans

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Jefferson Health Northeast invites applications for a Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist in Philadelphia, PA. The role processes patient specimens, performs phlebotomy, and supports lab operations in a fast-paced environment.

You will handle centrifuging, storage, transport, and specimen labeling to maintain integrity and accurate test results. Qualifications include a High School Diploma or equivalent and 1–2 years of lab experience; phlebotomy training or certification preferred.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent AND Experience: 1-2 years’ previous Laboratory Experience preferred.
• Prior laboratory assistance and/or phlebotomy training required at certain laboratory locations.
• Phlebotomy certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Cooperates with laboratory divisions and nursing personnel to ensure proper collection of adequate and appropriate specimens for testing.
• Communicates with Nursing Personnel when patient refuses and uses hospital resources when language barriers exist.
• Adheres to department policy involving the proper identification of a patient and proper labeling of blood samples.
• Maintains orderly and timely flow of specimens to the technical departments in order to expedite the analysis of samples.
• Reviews lab requisitions from physicians for accuracy, completeness, medical necessity, and hospital’s ability to perform test and/or route specimen for testing.
• Prepares specimens for analysis, including centrifuging, aliquoting, plating, etc.
• Transports and stores specimens for future analysis.
• Performs registrations per hospital policy in order to provide assistance to patients and hospital personnel.
• May coordinates the loading of prepared patient samples on the automation lines to ensure timely sampling (where required by local laboratory needs).
• Other lab assistance duties as assigned by the supervisor or manager, including the performance of phlebotomy and collection of blood specimens via venipuncture or micro-technique at some locations; or training other Lab Assistants as directed.

Skills

Phlebotomy

Laboratory experience

Customer service

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Phlebotomy training

Tools

Phlebotomy equipment

Job description

Jefferson Health Northeast invites applications for a Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist in Philadelphia, PA. The role processes patient specimens, performs phlebotomy, and supports lab operations in a fast-paced environment.

You will handle centrifuging, storage, transport, and specimen labeling to maintain integrity and accurate test results. Qualifications include a High School Diploma or equivalent and 1–2 years of lab experience; phlebotomy training or certification preferred.