Donor Collection Specialist, Trainee

Sandy Location
9786 South 500 West
Sandy, UT 84070, USA

Building 560
560 Komas Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA

Schedule :
Variable Schedule (4 days per week) (30 hrs/wk) Sunday through Saturday (need to be available for 2 weekend days a month) Between hours of 5:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Works with the Donor Collection Specialist Trainer until demonstrated competency is achieved. Works in a highly regulated manufacturing environment to collect, modify blood products and components intended for transfusion. Maintains traceability and trackability for all steps in the manufacturing process. Duties include data handling, medical history screening, physical examination of donors and patients, collection of whole blood and apheresis products, mobile drive set‑up, manufacturing, modification, quality control, equipment maintenance, and minor problem solving.

This position requires variable shifts at different locations (Research Park, Sandy Donor Center, and mobile blood drives), flexibility on holidays and weekends, and the ability to travel.

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 be involved with 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.

• 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 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 of 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 and 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 regulation as outlined in the Laboratory Safety Manual.
• Answers telephone calls in a timely and courteous manner. Refer 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 insuring 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 stated timeframe.
• Observes principles of data security and patient confidentiality.
• Maintains ethical standards in the performance of testing and in interactions with donors, patients, coworkers, and other health care professionals.
• Maintains timely and effective communication with management to ensure all potential problems or issues are identified.
• Performs telephone recruiting of donors when needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Stooping:
  Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Reaching:
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Mobility:
  The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets,…