Location: Vancouver, WA |
Schedule: Full-time, contract, on-site, 5am-130pm M-F, weekends and holidays required |
Compensation: $27 per hour
Overview
A healthcare services provider is seeking a skilled Phlebotomist for a contract role in Vancouver, WA, with strong potential to convert to a permanent position. This role is essential to ensuring accurate specimen collection and smooth laboratory workflow in a clinical setting.
What you'll do
- Perform blood draws, label specimens, and centrifuge specimens as required
- Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
- Update patient information accurately
- 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
- Troubleshoot issues, assist with training, and recommend workflow improvements
Required qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- 1-2 years of experience
- 5 - 7 + years experience required
- Experience performing blood draws, labeling specimens, centrifuging specimens, recording maintenance data and decontamination, and updating patient information
- Ability to work the schedule of 5am-130pm M-F, including weekends and holidays
Compensation and benefits
- Pay rate: $27 per hour
- Benefits are available
- Projected duration: 3 months, with potential for permanent placement
Why this role
This position offers a competitive hourly rate, available benefits, and the opportunity for a contract role to become permanent.