Clinical Lab Assistant — Flexible Schedule & Perks

Firelands Health; Sandusky (OH); On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health and wellness offerings

Monthly employee events

Job summary

Firelands Health in Sandusky, OH, is hiring for a laboratory support role. You will prepare and label slides, manage supplies, document reagents, and handle specimen processing with attention to accuracy and safety.

The position involves loading specimens onto analyzers, performing waived tests, and maintaining QC and regulatory guidelines. You will participate in specimen handling across Microbiology and routine departments, ensure proper labeling, triage STAT tests, and perform essential

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required; hospital lab experience preferred.
• Basic clerical skills, typing, filing, medical terminology and computer literacy.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs and work in a clinical lab setting.
• CPR/BLS certification preferred and punctual attendance required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and label specimen slides (Gram stains, peripheral blood smears, bone marrow aspirations).
• Lab supply inventory management.
• Preparation, integrity assessment and documentation of reagents and controls.
• Ability to load specimens onto automated processors, understanding how to initiate testing, recognize testing errors, and basic understanding of how to mitigate testing errors.
• Perform waived tests across the department.
• Perform analyzer calibrations
• Perform quality control for test systems and assure proper guidelines are met for continued testing.
• Understand resulting guidelines, including critical values, delta checks and triaging STAT results. Follows all established resulting guidelines for tests performed.
• Setup of specimen plates in Microbiology.
• Visual inspection of specimens for quality to include review for volume and gross clots.
• Answer the pneumatic tube system and log specimens into the lab information system as needed. Assure all specimens received are labeled appropriately for testing.
• Help distribute specimens to testing areas within the laboratory following appropriate triage guidelines for STAT and other time sensitive tests.
• Follow proper specimen/patient identification process in the execution of all job duties.
• Perform clerical duties to include short-registration, order entry, scanning, and filing orders for patients and specimens.
• Investigate and resolve problems on orders and specimens.
• Familiar with correct specimen types, specimen stability, and basic specimen processing procedures.
• Dispose of biohazardous material.
• Perform specimen storage and retrieval.

Skills

Attention to detail

Punctual attendance

Manual dexterity

Ability to lift up to 25 lbs

Typing / computer literacy

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Previous hospital laboratory experience preferred

Tools

CPR/BLS certification

Job description

Firelands Health in Sandusky, OH, is hiring for a laboratory support role. You will prepare and label slides, manage supplies, document reagents, and handle specimen processing with attention to accuracy and safety.

The position involves loading specimens onto analyzers, performing waived tests, and maintaining QC and regulatory guidelines. You will participate in specimen handling across Microbiology and routine departments, ensure proper labeling, triage STAT tests, and perform essential