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Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

$16.60 - $29.88

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Holidays - No Holidays Required, Monday through Friday, On Call - Not Required, Weekends - No Weekends Required

Scheduled Hours:

variable

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 10 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

0

Cost Center:

10010 - 4260 Barre Health Center

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Job Description

II. Major Responsibilities:

1.    Performs venipuncture and capillary phlebotomy procedures on patients using appropriate specimen collection equipment and techniques.
2.    Review requisition and orders from physicians to ensure appropriate tests are drawn and tests meet guidelines for Medical Necessity.  Prepares Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) for tests that do not meet Medical Necessity guidelines and obtains appropriate signatures from patient and self.
3.    Performs EKG, pulse oximetry and point-of-care testing procedures as requested and associated quality control and maintenance of instrumentation
4.    Processes specimens including centrifugation, pour-off, aliquoting, labeling, and packaging.
5.    Provides essential patient data and insurance information for registration of specimens.  May create registration for outreach specimens in Hospital Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) system.

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:  

1.    Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
2.    Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3.    Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4.    Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5.    Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6.    Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
7.    Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

III.    Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education:

Required:
1.    High School graduate with successful completion from a recognized program for training in phlebotomy. 
2.    Basic life support certification required within 3 months of employment, and maintenance of annual competencies in BLS.

Preferred:
1.    - 

Experience/Skills:

Required:
1.    Prior documented experience performing phlebotomy.
Preferred:
1.    -

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies, including age-specific competencies and their measurements, will be developed and maintained in the individual departments.  The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description.  Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

IV. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions

Work is considered sedentary.  Position requires work indoors in a patient care environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual o