Lab Aide PRN

Baptist Health; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a dedicated professional to perform waived and moderate-high complexity testing under CLIA '88 guidelines in Microbiology. You will interpret and report results for established assays, perform quality control and maintenance, and work independently under supervision.

The role includes clerical tasks, specimen collection, accessioning and processing, answering phones, relaying patient results, and monitoring logs to ensure timely, accurate results.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• BLS certification required
• Ability to perform waived and moderate-high complexity testing per CLIA '88

Responsibilities

• Perform waived and moderate-high complexity testing per CLIA '88 guidelines
• Interpret and report results for established tests in Microbiology
• Perform QC/QA and instrument maintenance
• Clerical tasks, specimen collection, accessioning and processing
• Answer phones, relay patient results and monitor logs

Skills

Quality control

Quality assurance

Specimen collection

Clerical tasks

Accessioning

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary Job Description: Job Summary May performs waived and moderate high complexity testing according to CLIA '88 guidelines; interpretes and reports results for established tests in Microbiology. Performs quality control, quality assurance and maintenance. Works independently but under the supervision of the department coordinator or a certified technologist/technician. Duties include clerical tasks, specimen collection, accessioning and processing of specimens. Answers phones, relays patient results and monitors expected/outstanding logs. Minimum Requirements For areas of moderate-complexity testing, have earned a high school diploma or equivalent BLS.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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