Float Phlebotomist

Job Title: Float Phlebotomist
Base Location: Beacon New York 12508.
Required coverage area:  Beacon, Newburgh, Middletown, Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, Ossining, Suffern. Mileage will be reimbursed
Duration: 4 months (Extendable or contract to hire)
Schedule: Floater will be required to be available from 7:30am-8pm Monday-Friday, every other Saturday or Sunday 9am-5pm. They will only be working 1 weekend day. 
Pay Rate: $26/hr

• Requirements:
  1-2 years of working experience as a phlebotomist.
  Active Driving License
  Need to have a reliable vehicle
• Experience with straight, butterfly needles and color tubes.
  2 years of blood draw, venipunctures experience.

Duties may include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
* Experience doing blood draws, labeling specimens, centrifuging specimens, recording maintenance data and decontamination, updating patient information, etc.
* Collects and stores specimens according to established procedures
* Properly explains in a clear but courteous manner the process of the venipuncture (blood drawing) and or other specimen collection (ex. urine or fecal) as required
* Demonstrate technique/s using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
* Fully understand all of the physicians' orders
* Matches laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes; label, centrifuge, split, and freeze specimens as required by test order
* Checks all test requisitions or computer label against script to ensure 100% correct
* Package specimens for transport
* Stores specimen sample according to required temperature, places samples in appropriate collection container/ tube, accurately labels, follows different procedures as outlined by specific to protocol deemed necessary for transport to maintain integrity of the specimen.