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General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 6:00am - 2:30pm with rotating weekends and holidays
Posted Date
04/08/2025
Salary Range: $32.48 - 41.19 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
23658

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As a Lead Phlebotomist with the Santa Monica Hospital Laboratory, your duties include:

  • On a daily basis, assess overall workload for any area that needs help
  • Ensures work is performed properly and in a timely manner and all benches are covered by competent staff
  • Performs advance level pre-analytical and post-analytical activities and specimen processing duties
  • Troubleshoots specimen/test order problems, and Total Lab Automation line issues
  • Performs preventive maintenance of equipment
  • Monitor inventory of pre-analytical supplies
  • Demonstrates effective communication with team members, patients, internal and external laboratory customers and partners
  • Performs phlebotomy on inpatients and outpatients, including neonatal/pediatric patients
  • Triage all lab samples and requests after verification of appropriate information
  • Enter and verify patient and test info into computer
  • Generate computer labels for specimens and deliver to appropriate areas
  • Prepare samples for transport to referral labs
  • Document draws, added tests, and cancelled/rejected specimens
  • Assist with training in phlebotomy and/or specimen processing

Salary Range: $33.78 - $42.84/hour 

Job Qualifications

• Current and valid California State CPT certificate

• High school diploma or equivalent (e.g. GED or HiSET)

• At least five(5) years of licensed phlebotomy experience in high volume hospital setting

• Previous experience performing specimen processing in an acute care facility, highly preferred

• Previous experience in EPIC, highly preferred

• Knowledge of Clinical Lab test names and their abbreviated forms

• Ability to multi-task with accuracy

• Excellent time and organizational skills

• Skill in using a computer and printer


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.