Phlebotomist Floater

Pay Range: $18.00hr - $25.00hr

Job Overview:

The Phlebotomist Floater represents the organization to patients who come in as part of their health routine or for insights into life-defining health decisions. The Phlebotomist Floater draws quality blood samples from patients and prepares those specimens for lab testing while following established practices and procedures. The successful candidate has direct contact with patients and creates an atmosphere of trust and confidence while explaining procedures to patients and drawing blood specimens in a skillful, safe, and accurate manner. The Phlebotomist Floater is responsible for providing coverage at multiple locations for multiple roles. The Phlebotomist Floater must ensure that daily activities of the Patient Service Center, Mobile, Long Term Care, or In-Office Phlebotomy are completed accurately and on time. The Phlebotomist Floater demonstrates leadership behaviors while focusing on process excellence skills and sensitivity to confidentiality and accuracy to patient information. Successful applicants may be assigned to work and direct daily activity in a doctor's office, a patient service center, in a house call environment, long term care, or as business needs dictate. The successful candidate must be able to step in and lead one or more Phlebotomist site staff. The candidate will be required to act as a coach, mentor, instructor, and resource advisor for new employees and provide effective onboarding services to new clients. The candidate will also act as a point of contact to staff on site and provide regular input to the group lead or supervisor. The Phlebotomist Floater may also focus on working with customers who have a high-complexity and/or high-volume practice with a specialized focus requiring outstanding phlebotomy skills. In addition, these practices require strong verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving, and collaboration with multiple functions, such as Sales, Laboratory Testing Services, IT Connectivity, Billing, and Logistics due to their specialty and/or complex test orders. The Phlebotomist Floater must be capable of handling multiple priorities in a high-volume setting.

Required Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Medical training: medical assistant or paramedic training preferred.
• Phlebotomy certification preferred. Required in California, Nevada, and Washington.

Work Experience:

• Five years phlebotomy experience required, inclusive of pediatric, geriatric, and capillary collections.
• Minimum 3 years in a PSC/IOP environment preferred.
• Customer service in a retail or service environment preferred.
• Keyboard/data entry experience.