Lab Patient Technician

LifeLabs; Lindsay; On-site; CAD 25,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

LifeLabs in Lindsay, Ontario is seeking a Part-Time Lab Patient Technician to welcome patients, collect specimens, and prepare them for transportation. The role is essential to patient care and offers exposure to a variety of tests in a busy clinical setting.

Responsibilities include greeting patients, performing phlebotomies, ECG tracings, and other specimen collection tasks; maintaining patient privacy; data entry; and keeping clients informed while coordinating with the lab team.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved Laboratory Assistant program or equivalent are preferred.
• Phlebotomy experience is an asset.
• ECG training or experience is an asset
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good computer skills with a minimum typing speed of 40 wpm.
• Strong customer/patient service with the ability to relate to patients and clients even in stressful situations
• Strong empathy, flexibility, adaptability to change, and problem solving skills
• Ability to maintain the strictest standards of patient privacy and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Greet and request required information from patients, explain the specimen collection process, and ensure patients have followed necessary test protocol prior to specimen collection.
• Perform phlebotomies, connect/disconnect holter monitors, and perform ECG tracings.
• Perform special test collections, such as medical/legal drug screens, paternity tests, and clinical trials, and complete related documentation.
• Maintain client relationships, including responding to inquiries and following up on requests.
• Complete data entry of required patient demographics, requisition information, and other information related to processing test results.
• Prepare specimens for transportation and testing.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Empathy

Typing speed 40 wpm

Education

Laboratory Assistant program

Tools

Phlebotomy

ECG

Job description

As a Lab Patient Technician you will be responsible for the specimen collection process, from greeting patients through to preparation of specimens for transportation. This is an important role in patient care and our business, and will let you see the difference that you make in patients’ lives.

Status: Part Time
Schedule: Shifts and schedules may vary depending upon operational requirements.
Additional Requirements: Successful candidate will work as Part-Time Lab Patient Technician located at 86 Angeline St S, Lindsay ON.
Number of positions: 1
Start Date: 16 November 2026

This vacancy is for an existing position.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Greet and request required information from patients, explain the specimen collection process, and ensure patients have followed necessary test protocol prior to specimen collection.


• Perform phlebotomies, connect/disconnect holter monitors, and perform ECG tracings.


• Perform special test collections, such as medical/legal drug screens, paternity tests, and clinical trials, and complete related documentation.


• Maintain client relationships, including responding to inquiries and following up on requests.


• Complete data entry of required patient demographics, requisition information, and other information related to processing test results.


• Prepare specimens for transportation and testing.

What you will bring to the role:

• Graduate of an approved Laboratory Assistant program or equivalent are preferred.


• Phlebotomy experience is an asset.


• ECG training or experience is an asset


• Excellent communication skills.


• Good computer skills with a minimum typing speed of 40 wpm.


• Strong customer/patient service with the ability to relate to patients and clients even in stressful situations


• Strong empathy, flexibility, adaptability to change, and problem solving skills


• Ability to maintain the strictest standards of patient privacy and confidentiality.