What are the responsibilities and job description for the Phlebotomist / WeLearn position at Hillcrest Medical Center?
Overview
Why Join Us?
Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better
- Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
- People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
- Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
Get to Know Your Team:
- Hillcrest Medical Center is a 656-bed hospital that includes The Alexander Burn Center, The Peggy V. Helmerich Women’s Health Center, Kaiser Rehabilitation Center, the latest technology for the treatment of cancer, and the Oklahoma Heart Institute.
Responsibilities
- Promotes professionalism and interacts with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.
- Ensure specimens are obtained in accordance with laboratory guidelines.
- Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.
- Supports organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
- Attains required competency and demonstrates the ability to follow procedural directions and protocols.
- Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.
- Follows proper protocols for specimen packaging and specimen transport.
- Responsible for specimen accessioning as assigned.
- Demonstrates proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.
- Performs proper drug screen collection and processing as assigned.
- Answers laboratory department phone calls.
- Demonstrates ability to recognize emergent conditions and reacts appropriately.
- Provides phlebotomy services in a professional and patient centered manner.
- Engages in self-evaluation of practice and takes action to improve knowledge and skills.
- Retains accountability for quality of care given to the patient.
- Promotes service excellence and growth of the laboratory.
- May work with multiple departments within the laboratory or across the hospital/health system.
- Performs arterial puncture as assigned.
- Demonstrates proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.
- Responsible for other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Basic computer skills
Preferred Job Requirements
- Completion of an accredited phlebotomy/medical assistant program with clinicals or previous phlebotomy experience
- Experience working in the clinical setting
