Phlebotomist

Job Summary

As a Phlebotomist, you will competently collect blood and other patient specimens for diagnostic testing, ensuring comfort and safety. Every day you will identify patients, explain procedures, proficiently perform venipunctures, and accurately label/prepare specimens for laboratory analysis, adhering to safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Competently collect blood and other patient specimens for diagnostic testing, ensuring comfort and safety
• Identify patients, explain procedures, proficiently perform venipunctures, and accurately label/prepare specimens for laboratory analysis, adhering to safety protocols
• Perform venipuncture and capillary puncture procedures on all age groups as appropriate according to departmental standards in a timely manner
• Obtain correct specimens for tests according to departmental standards
• Responds to STAT, ASAP, Timed and special lab requests (Rapid Response, Trauma, etc...) per departmental standards
• Performs clerical duties including answering the phones, assisting hospital staff within the lab and greeting customers in a polite and professional manner at all times
• Receives and processes samples according to departmental standards

Requirements

• Required High School Diploma/GED
• Completion of CA state approved phlebotomy license program
• One year of acute care experience (includes NICU, Pediatrics, Critical Care Patients) as a Phlebotomist (may consider candidates with less experience if no qualified applicants apply)
• Phlebotomist: CA CPT
• Basic Life Support - BLS through an American Heart Association provider
• Typing, organizational skills, knowledge of computers, ability to accurately enter data follow policy and procedure
• Ability to remain calm and function efficiently during difficult or emergency situations

Preferred

• Associate Degree in related field

Where You'll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. One Community. One Mission. One California

Pay Range

$35.15 - $39.42 /hour