Blood Collection Officer

I’m Keith Whiston from the Sport Integrity Commission Te Kahu Raunui.  I’m responsible for Sample Collection Personnel (SCP) at the Commission.  SCP are independent contractors who are accredited by the Commission to collect biological samples from athletes for the purposes of anti-doping.  One of our SCP roles is Blood Collection Officer, for which we need practicing professionals skilled in phlebotomy.  At the Commission we don’t provide phlebotomy training, or assess phlebotomy skills, so we’re reliant on the contractor being a member of an accrediting body, to be currently practicing, and to have ongoing PDP / competency measures in place.  Ultimately, we want to ensure that athletes have a good experience of venous blood collection, which requires contractors to be competent and working to NZ standards.

Due to the nature of our work, and our approach to it, we don’t approach agencies to supply us with phlebotomists as and when we need them.  We instead spend time identifying suitable, athlete-focused candidates and training them in the culture of clean sport and to the international standards to which the Commission is held.  We also train all of our phlebotomists to support athletes throughout the entire sample collection process, including collecting observed urine samples.

We may collect samples from athletes at any time, e.g. at their home in the morning / evening; at their place of training during a weekday daytime, or; at a sporting event (usually weekends or evenings).  So we are looking for phlebotomists with good people skills, good availability – e.g. shift workers, part time workers, self-employed – as well as people with an interest in sport.