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Position at Dynacare - Job Posting: Laboratory Assistant Float

Where YOU work, makes a difference. Life is precious and every moment matters. Dynacare is helping Canadians achieve a healthy future with care and wellness solutions that are convenient, understandable, and accessible. When you join our team, every day is an opportunity to get better and be inspired. It’s an environment where you can grow your career in any direction you choose. We’re evolving our technology and optimizing our processes, so you can do your best work, make a meaningful impact, and grow with us.

Are YOU our next Laboratory Assistant? As a Laboratory Assistant, you are responsible for obtaining quality blood samples and other specimens from patients, as well as conducting other patient tests, all in keeping with Dynacare’s mission and values. Working as part of a team, you assist in building a positive team environment and maintaining quality metrics. You also play an important role in providing customer service to create the best possible patient experience. These can be stressful situations for patients, and you need to display empathy, care, and kindness.

This is a permanent part-time position, working Monday to Friday, between 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Saturday from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, at our Laboratory and Health Services Center (LHSC) locations in Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, Markham, and Scarborough.

Why Dynacare is an amazing place for YOU:

• Join an award-winning "Top Employer" with meaningful and impactful career opportunities
• Access a health and wellness benefits program that supports you and your loved ones
• Grow and thrive with a dynamic, successful company through internal mobility opportunities
• Invest in your future through RRSP match benefits and an employee stock purchase program
• Experience a collaborative, diverse workforce that prioritizes dignity and respect for all

How YOU will make a difference:

• Create an ideal customer experience that is best in class and engages with individuals around our products and services
• Accurately enter data, patient, and test information for Ministry of Health requisitions
• Obtain quality blood samples and other specimens from patients, using skillful venipuncture techniques, performed in keeping with Dynacare’s mission and values
• Sort and steer specimens, perform ECGs, Holter hook-ups, paternity, urine, drug, and breath alcohol collections
• Ensure specimens and supporting documentation are completed as required in SOPs and ready for data entry and transportation to the laboratory, following established protocols for the handling of suitable and unsuitable samples
• Ensure all confidential information is maintained securely. Contribute to meeting departmental/corporate quality metrics, regulatory compliance, and quality indicators

What YOU bring to the role:

• You have completed Secondary School and a Laboratory Assistant training program or a Medical Lab Assistance course with specialized training in phlebotomy
• You are customer-focused with a genuine care for patients’ health
• Demonstrate skill in phlebotomy, managing anxious patients with a calm and reassuring manner
• Prioritize and self-manage within a deadline-oriented environment
• Be extremely detail-oriented
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal, to communicate instructions clearly and understandably to patients

Passionate about supporting healthy lives with commitment and care? Please apply today and let us open the door to your extended career journey. Dynacare has been a “Top Employer” for many years for a reason. We are a great place to work. If you are looking for a meaningful career supporting healthy lives, we would like to meet you. Join us in our journey to become Canada’s health and wellness solutions leader.