Location: Oceanside, CA (with float coverage to Vista, CA and Encinitas, CA) | Schedule: Full-time, on-site, contract with potential for permanent placement; shifts fall between 6AM and 6PM Monday-Friday (8-hour shifts, exact start/end depending on location), with occasional weekend rotation (as little as one weekend per month) | Compensation: $20.25 per hour
Overview: A healthcare services provider is seeking a Phlebotomist to support specimen collection and lab workflow across multiple patient service center locations. This is a contract role lasting approximately 3 months with the potential to convert to a permanent position, ideal for a detail-oriented professional comfortable working across sites and handling a variety of collection duties.
What you'll do:
  • Perform blood draws, label specimens, and operate centrifuging equipment
  • Record maintenance data and perform decontamination procedures
  • Update patient information in system records
  • 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 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 and store samples at required temperatures
  • Place samples in appropriate collection containers/tubes and label accurately
  • 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 read laboratory results to satisfy inquiries
  • Float to other patient service center locations as needed
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 SuiteHigh School Diploma or GED1-4 years of experience
  • Clean driving record
  • Reliable transportation
Compensation and benefits:
  • $20.25 per hour
  • Benefits are available
  • Mileage expenses paid for travel between locations
  • Why this role
This position offers a defined contract term with the potential to become a permanent role, along with mileage reimbursement for travel between locations and available benefits.

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Level

Junior

Salary

$20.25 per hour

Location

Oceanside, CA

Occupation

Phlebotomists

Industry

All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services

Posted

yesterday

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