Phlebotomist 1

Octapharma•Gretna, LA

4h•Onsite

About The Position

Octapharma Plasma is a rapidly growing company that offers significant career development opportunities within its donation centers. The company's mission is to collect plasma to create life-saving medicines for patients globally. The Phlebotomist 1 role is essential for supporting donors and patients, requiring an individual who is eager to learn, enjoys interacting with people, and is genuinely committed to helping others. This position involves ensuring strict compliance with state and federal regulations, maintaining high standards of customer service, and performing venipuncture and plasma collection procedures with utmost attention to safety and quality.

Requirements

High school diploma, or equivalent (GED) required.
Any specific certification or licensing based on State requirements.
Must have completed documentation of training appropriate for duties, prior to performing duties independently.
Strong customer service skills required.
Ability to understand and follow written and verbal protocol required.
Basic computer knowledge and skills required.
Ability to make accurate and complete documentation.
Ability to read and interpret documents, such as safety regulations, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals required.
Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment with frequent interruptions.
Demonstrated consistency and reliability (good attendance, punctuality, apply full effort throughout shift, flexibility with assigned schedule) required.
Ability to work daytime and evening hours, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts frequently required.
Ability to perform venipuncture required.
Effective communication skills required.

Nice To Haves

Minimum three (3) months’ experience in a medical or health care environment or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensures total operation is compliant with state and federal regulations (e.g., FDA approved Standard Operating Procedures, OSHA, CLIA, and GMP) to maintain the highest production standards and ensure facility compliance.
Maintains high level of customer service and positive donor experience in line with company values and culture.
Maintains cleanliness of work area to ensure a clean and professional environment.
Reviews and confirms donor identification and maintains donor confidentiality per Standard Operating Procedures.
Sets up and prepares all equipment and disposable supplies for venipuncture and plasmapheresis procedure.
Labels and ensures each unit and samples are labeled accurately.
Execute venipunctures and plasma collection, maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety.
Operates the automated plasmapheresis machines, including response and evaluation of all machine alarms and alerts, donor adverse events, document exceptions, etc.
Monitor donor conditions, employing techniques to ensure donor comfort, safety, and the quality of plasma product.
Maintains proper ratio to ensure donor safety and to quality of product.
Disconnect donor and manage the disposal of biohazard waste and contaminated equipment in accordance with the safety protocols, between donors which can include cleaning of any blood or plasma spills and performs proper procedure for disposition of biohazardous waste.
Performs daily, weekly, and monthly calibration/maintenance of automated plasmapheresis machines and removes and/or replaces equipment from service, if needed.
Maintains accurate and thorough documentation of necessary records, including Plasmapheresis Machine Logs.
Reports all unsafe situations and conditions to management.
Maintains/stocks adequate inventory and replenish supplies on plasma carts.
Able to drive training efficiencies to ensure timeliness and compliance.
Responsible for troubleshooting machine alarms/alerts and perform QCs routinely (defined as daily/monthly) on equipment.
Performs other job-related tasks as assigned.