Lead Mobile Phlebotomist

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Drives vehicle to client facilities, typically nursing homes, as directed
• Unloads phlebotomy tray and takes to patient’s bedside to collect samples
• Accurately identifies patient before collecting specimen(s)
• Check in with dispatch per department policy on scheduled workdays to verify if amendments to the routes are needed
• Completes assigned route
• Accurately collects, labels, processes, and delivers specimens obtained from patients
• Strict adherence to universal precautions in controlling blood-borne pathogens and infectious disease exposures
• Regularly communicates with dispatcher to report status and location
• Trains new phlebotomists as assigned
• Attend facility start up in-service with supervisor as assigned
• Conduct quarterly trunk checks for phlebotomist in area as assigned
• Account for all route sheets daily
• Communicate cooperatively with all other departments

Physical Demands

• Frequently walks, stands, handles or feels, talks and hears
• Occasionally sits, reaches with hands and arms, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls
• Lifts and/or moves up to 35 pounds on occasion
• Close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus required

Work Environment

• The standard medical laboratory environment exists
• Potential health hazards do exist
• Blood-borne pathogens, biological materials, hazardous substances, and radioactive material are handled