Job Title: Phlebotomist
Location: RWJ - Hamilton
Department Name: Lab HH Phlebotomist
Req #: 0000272967
Status: Hourly
Shift: Evening
Pay Range: $22.95 - $22.95 per hour
Pay Transparency:
The above reflects the anticipated hourly wage range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.
The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
Phlebotomist – RWJBarnabas Health
Seeking to make a meaningful impact on the recovery and safety of medical patients? At RWJBarnabas Health, our multidisciplinary patient care teams work collaboratively to provide high-quality, compassionate care to individuals facing diverse medical challenges. As a Phlebotomist, work is performed within our laboratory team, serving as a vital clinical professional and supportive liaison for patients requiring laboratory services. Phlebotomists are a critical component of the care plan, redefining the patient experience through vigilance, precision, and excellence. This is an opportunity to join a dedicated team focused on maintaining a secure and therapeutic healing environment.
A typical day for a Phlebotomist may include:
- Procures venous and capillary blood specimens on all patients regardless of age on a routine, timed, and stat basis within departmental timelines.
- Maintains 100 percent compliance with positive patient identification protocols, from bedside verification and order matching to specimen label printing, bedside labeling, transport, and LIS receipt.
- Achieves departmental performance standards, maintaining a phlebotomy success rate greater than 90 percent and an expected collection rate of 8 to 10 patients per hour.
- Ensures high responsiveness by meeting collection windows: stat draws within 30 minutes, timed draws within 30 minutes of the target, and routine draws within 60 minutes.
- Verifies orders from scripts and accurately inputs patient, test order, and physician data into the HIS and LIS to expedite testing and minimize order entry errors.
- Prepares and transports specimens securely, ensuring all drawn samples are returned to the laboratory via the pneumatic tube system within 10 minutes of collection.
- Utilizes clinical downtime efficiently for phlebotomy tray decontamination, specimen centrifugation, department deliveries, culture plating, and blood culture set-ups.
- Applies the knowledge and skills necessary to assess data reflective of each patient's status and provides age-appropriate care across infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.
- Promotes a proactive, teamwork-driven environment across shifts, train and maintain competency as a hazardous materials packager, and perform other duties or mentor students and new employees as required.
This role might be for you if:
- There is a passion for providing a safe, compassionate, and welcoming healthcare experience for patients while providing a supportive environment with prompt and consistent service.
- Observation and clinical skills are exceptional, and you continuously demonstrate a patient-focused work attitude that drives patient satisfaction scores into the 90th percentile.
- A high bar is set regarding patient rights, strict confidentiality of all communications and records, and a total commitment to our Safety Together principles.
- You easily refer to questionable issues or conflicts to the laboratory supervisor, Charge Nurse, or a designee for quick and safe resolution.
- Communication is effective with multidisciplinary teams, listening and communicating effectively to demonstrate professionalism with families, visitors, physicians, co-workers, and supervisors.
- You support teamwork by cooperative problem-solving through participation in meetings or projects, and utilize principles of continuous quality improvement to assess, measure, and improve department functions.
- You can organize work and set priorities with a minimum of supervision, make timely decisions consistent with objectives, demonstrate sound judgment, and benefit from constructive criticism.
To be considered for this Phlebotomist opportunity:
- A High School diploma or equivalent is required.
- Completion of a Phlebotomy certificate with a nationally recognized program is preferred.
- Six (6) months of experience performing blood or specimen collection procedures is preferred.
- Ability to correctly comply with all national patient safety goals, risk reduction procedures, and associated policies applicable to this scope of practice.
- Successful completion of the clinical training orientation and hospital compliance competencies upon hire.
- Scheduling Requirements: Per Diem, Evening Shift (1:00 PM – 9:30 PM).
- Requires availability to work every other weekend, and 2–3 assigned rotating holidays per year.
