Get Paid While You Train!

    Kentucky Blood Center offers on-the-job training for all of our positions. Depending on what job you're hired to perform, you will receive job-appropriate training from our staff of certified trainers. In certain departments, if you terminate your employment within one year of being trained, you will be required to repay KBC for a portion of your training.

Phlebotomist

   Individuals applying for phlebotomist positions must complete a two-week training session as a Medical Screener prior to phlebotomy training. Medical Screening Training will cover regulations and standards pertaining to whole blood donation. Once trained, individuals will work as Medical Screeners for a period of time, to be determined by Area Managers, before being enrolled in phlebotomy training.
   Phlebotomy training is a two-week training session that covers regulations and standards for whole blood donation. Regardless of any previous phlebotomy experience or training, all prospective phlebotomy employees must complete both of our training sessions.

Processing

    Processing Laboratory staff are trained to provide complete testing of donor units for all FDA-mandated testing. This includes ABO/Rh, CMV, syphilis, antibody screens, HIV-1/2, Hepatitis B surface antigen, Hepatitis B core antibody, Hepatitis C, HTLV-I/II. NAT testing is also performed for HCV, HIV and WNV on donor units. Processing Laboratory staff are also trained to provide antigen negative units to our service hospitals for their patients.

Components

    The components laboratory manufactures blood components from whole blood. From one unit of blood, many components can be made. Red blood cells, platelets and fresh frozen plasma are made from one unit, or red cells, cryoprecipitate and recovered plasma can be made from another unit.

   All training will be provided by a trainer on either the 1st or 2nd shift. This on-the-job training takes approximately 6 to 8 weeks. The employee will have a competency evaluation after each training seesion and again after 6 months and then annually.

Hospital Services
    Hospital Services is the Customer Service department for our hospitals. Employees will be trained to use good communication skills to provide excellent service to hospital employees.

    A fully trained Hospital Services employee will recognize the various products provided by Kentucky Blood Center and be familiar with the different blood groups.
    Each worker will be trained on inventory management. When inventory is low, employees will make decisions regarding distribution of blood products to hospitals needing them the most.
    Individuals will also be trained on proper packing of products to insure they arrive at the intended destination without compromising the quality of the product.