Clinic Phlebotomist: Float

Advocate Aurora Health • Mount Pleasant, SC

107d • $19 - $29

About The Position

The position is part-time, requiring 20 hours per week, with availability to cover hours of operation that can vary from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM. The role includes a weekend rotation, specifically on Saturdays, and covers regions including Franklin, Racine, Kenosha, and two sites in Northern Illinois, with a focus on Franklin and Racine. The major responsibilities include verifying patient identification, performing venipuncture, collecting specimens, and ensuring proper specimen handling and testing according to established protocols.

Requirements

• High School Graduate.
• Demonstrates knowledge and experience in phlebotomy or related laboratory function.
• Basic computer skills including experience using computer software applications.
• Keyboarding and typing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good listening skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrated customer service skills to interface effectively with physicians, patients, visitors, and other healthcare employees.

Responsibilities

• Verifies positive patient identification to ensure patient safety.
• Assesses patient reactions to specimen procurement.
• Performs venipuncture and collects other specimens from newborn, pediatric, and adult patients according to established protocol.
• Obtains medical assistance when judged necessary.
• Ensures completion of specimen collection functions according to protocol.
• Ensures that specimens are properly labeled and suitable for testing.
• Resolves specimen identification and/or requisition problems and clarifies requests.
• Performs limited testing under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), 1988 guidelines according to established policies and procedures.
• Answers and screens telephone calls.
• Assists with inventory and maintains supplies and/or equipment.
• Provides assistance in support of Billing and other business functions.
• Accepts specimens from a variety of internal and external customers.
• Receives and sorts specimens.
• Packages and tracks specimens for transport.
• Processes specimens for testing, including aliquoting, pre-analytical steps, and loading instruments, while maintaining proper specimen identification.
• Responds to additional specimen procurement requests via pager or other means.
• Orders and verifies test requests.
• Documents appropriate information for quality assurance/improvement according to established protocol.
• Runs quality control checks.
• Takes appropriate action to notify providers of stat, critical and other abnormal results as defined by policy and procedure.
• Performs laboratory result entry in the computer system.
• Performs internal and external proficiency testing in the same manner as patient samples.
• Reviews various pending and management reports.
• Generates and distributes reports.
• Instructs employees and students in phlebotomy, data entry and specimen processing functions.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: High school or GED