Donor Collection Specialist, Trainee

Locations

• 9786 South 500 west, Sandy, UT 84070, USA
• 560 Komas Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA

Variable Schedule (4 days per week) – Sunday through Saturday, available for 2 weekend days per month. Between 5:00 AM and 11:00 PM.

Works with the Donor Collection Specialist Trainer until demonstrated competency is achieved with the following job purpose: works in a highly regulated manufacturing environment to collect product and/or modify blood products and components intended for transfusion. Maintains traceability and trackability for all steps in the manufacturing process.

Duties include data handling and input, medical history screening and physical examination of donors and patients, collection of whole blood and apheresis products, set‑up of mobile drives, manufacturing, and modification of blood products, answering the telephone, performing and documenting quality control and equipment maintenance, and minor problem‑solving.

This position requires variable shifts at different locations (Research Park, Sandy Donor Center, and mobile blood drives). It also requires flexibility to work holidays and weekends as needed, and the ability to travel and work off‑site with co‑workers in a mobile office (i.e., Blood Drives).

Will be required to pass the ARUP Donor Collection Specialist Examination within 9 months of hire.

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life.

We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.

We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

• Greets and accurately registers donors.
• Obtains and evaluates donor information from allogeneic, autologous, and directed donors.
• Accurately interprets donor suitability by performing medical history on donors.
• Performs and evaluates a limited physical examination of donors according to SOP.
• Travels to mobile sites for blood drives and assists Lead Tech in physically setting up and taking down the mobile drive.
• Prepares and packages whole blood units properly for shipment to processing.
• Collects whole blood units according to Standard Operating Procedures. Maintains complete and accurate documentation of each procedure.
• Provides complete donor care including pre‑ and post‑donation information, monitoring of donor comfort during the procedure, and donor care following reactions. Accurately documents all donor reactions.
• Provides cardiopulmonary resuscitation and requests emergency care when necessary.
• Takes proper action when blood or product storage refrigerators, freezer, or platelet incubator alarms sound.
• Performs and documents quality control and equipment maintenance within predetermined parameters.
• Complies with safety and biohazard regulations as outlined in the Laboratory Safety Manual.
• Answers telephone calls in a timely and courteous manner. Refers problems or issues to appropriate individuals.
• Maintains work area. Cleans bench tops, donor chairs, and equipment after each spill, and daily at the end of the work shift. Documents as required.
• Obtains supplies from storeroom, ensuring that oldest stock is used first and proper procedures are followed.
• Attends laboratory meetings and in‑services as required.
• Remains current in all procedures. Completes all competency requirements within the stated timeframe.
• Observes principles of data security and patient confidentiality.
• Maintains ethical standards in the performance of testing and in interactions with donors, patients, co‑workers, and other health care professionals.
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