Lab Assistant

HCA Healthcare; Myrtle Beach (SC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is hiring a Laboratory Assistant for a full-time day shift with rotating weekends at Grand Strand Medical Center. The role focuses on the technical and clerical aspects of the laboratory, including specimen processing, LIS data entry, and basic quality control tasks.

The position offers opportunities to assist in preparing samples for testing, coordinating with technical staff, and reporting critical results while supporting a compliant and safe lab environment.

Qualifications

• High School Graduate / GED required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with technical and clerical tasks in the laboratory, including specimen processing and registration.
• Support laboratory staff by preparing samples for testing and performing basic quality control steps.
• Coordinate reporting of stat and critical results to external facilities as needed.

Education

High School Graduate / GED

Job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

This position is for full time days with rotating weekends.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Laboratory Assistant is responsible assisting with the technical and clerical aspects of the laboratory department, such as managing collection, acceptance, receipt and processing of all specimens into the laboratory department (s). The Laboratory Assistant will complete computerized registration of patient samples using laboratory information system (lis), performs waived testing, as trained. Assists technical staff by organizing and preparing samples for testing, such as centrifugation, preparation of smears for staining, and placing samples on analyzers for testing that do not require programming. Responsible for contacting external facilities to report stat and critical results, as well as completing basic quality control steps (i.e. Sterility testing, new lot qualification). The Laboratory Assistant’s position may include direct supervision of students at the discretion of the area supervisor. The Lab Assistant position requires the same licensure or completed training to satisfy the requirements of the discipline of the student. Assists in the technical and clerical aspects of the laboratory department.

What qualifications you will need:

• High School Graduate / GED

Benefits

Grand Strand Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Grand Strand Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1978, giving patient's access to highly-trained physicians and advanced technology. With more than 40 years of pioneering healthcare, our 300+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities. We offer a range of services for our patients - including the only cardiac surgery program, neurosurgery program, pediatric intensive care unit, Level I trauma center with two free-standing emergency departments, advanced wound care center, breast cancer center and Carolina Forest Imaging Center. We are recognized, for the chest pain, knee and hip replacement, sepsis and stroke by the Joint Commission.

At Grand Strand Health, you'll find that caring extends to our patients, our people and our South Carolina community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.