Phlebotomist

As a Phlebotomist, your main responsibility will be to draw blood and other tissue or fluid from patients for testing purposes. Your role plays a crucial part in helping individuals maintain their health and can even contribute to saving lives. One of the key duties of a Phlebotomist is to accurately identify patients and correctly execute phlebotomy methods, such as venipuncture and skin puncture. Your expertise in these techniques is vital in preserving patient health and ensuring the quality of samples. To excel in this role, you should possess essential skills including presence of mind, strong interpersonal abilities, and meticulous attention to detail. A diploma in phlebotomy and knowledge of puncture techniques are required qualifications for this position. In your day-to-day tasks, you will be responsible for organizing daily activities based on the urgency of requests for fluid samples, identifying patients accurately, determining the appropriate venipuncture method based on factors like patient age and health, reassuring and comforting patients, locating suitable veins for puncture, drawing blood using sterile equipment, ensuring the quality and quantity of samples, labeling samples correctly for testing, addressing patient inquiries, maintaining accurate records of specimens and tests, adhering to health and safety standards, and assisting with blood transfusions when necessary. The ideal candidate for this role will have proven experience as a Phlebotomist or Phlebotomy Technician, proficiency in effective puncture techniques, understanding of proper patient identification methods, knowledge of legal requirements related to blood drawing and sample handling, familiarity with medical equipment usage, computer literacy for data entry, excellent communication skills, keen attention to detail, ability to connect with diverse patient demographics, patience, presence of mind, and a diploma in Phlebotomy or relevant on-the-job training. Certification in this field would be an added advantage. This position offers a variety of job types including Full-time, Part-time, Fresher, Internship, and Freelance, with a contract length of 12 months. The benefits include paid time off and performance bonuses. The work schedule may involve Day shift, Evening shift, Morning shift, Rotational shift, and availability on weekends. Education-wise, a Diploma is preferred, and candidates with at least 1 year of total work experience are preferred. The work location for this role is in person.,