Lab Assistant (FT, 3:30pm - 12am) - Center City

Jefferson Health; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Lab Assistant to join their team in Philadelphia. This role involves processing and handling patient specimens, ensuring accuracy and integrity in lab operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in laboratory techniques and customer service, with responsibilities including specimen preparation and interaction with healthcare staff. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a leading healthcare organization committed to providing high-quality clinical care and enhancing community health.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years previous laboratory experience preferred.
• Prior laboratory assistance and/or phlebotomy training required.

Responsibilities

• Supports lab operations by processing patient specimens accurately.
• Maintains timely flow of specimens to expedite analysis.

Skills

Laboratory Techniques

Customer Service

Phlebotomy

Specimen Handling

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Lab Assistant (FT, 3:30pm - 12am) - Center City

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Lab Assistant (FT, 3:30pm - 12am) - Center City

Job Details

Lab Assistant (FT, 3:30pm - 12am) - Center City

*Must be able to train on dayshift before moving to evening shift*

The Laboratory Assistant supports lab operations by processing and handling patient specimens for diagnostic testing in an accurate and timely manner and following established protocols. The Lab Assistant is responsible for receiving, centrifuging, storing, and transporting/distributing samples according to protocol in order to maintain sample integrity. The Lab Assistant provides customer service in all interactions with patients, physician and nursing personnel when providing instruction and assistance regarding laboratory testing results. May perform basic laboratory techniques and or testing congruent with CLIA requirements.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Cooperates with laboratory divisions and nursing personnel to ensure proper collection of adequate and appropriate specimens for testing. Communicates with Nursing Personnel when patient refuses and uses hospital resources when language barriers exist.
• Adheres to department policy involving the proper identification of a patient and proper labeling of blood samples.
• Maintains orderly and timely flow of specimens to the technical departments in order to expedite the analysis of samples.
• Reviews lab requisitions from physicians for accuracy, completeness, medical necessity, and hospital’s ability to perform test and/or route specimen for testing.
• Prepares specimens for analysis, including centrifuging, aliquoting, plating, etc. Transports and stores specimens for future analysis.
• Performs registrations per hospital policy in order to provide assistance to patients and hospital personnel.
• May coordinates the loading of prepared patient samples on the automation lines to ensure timely sampling (where required by local laboratory needs).
• Other lab assistance duties as assigned by the supervisor or manager, including the performance of phlebotomy and collection of blood specimens via venipuncture or micro-technique at some locations; or training other Lab Assistants as directed.
  
  

Minimum Education And Experience Requirements

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent AND Experience: 1-2 years’ previous Laboratory Experience preferred. Prior laboratory assistance and/or phlebotomy training required at certain laboratory locations.

Work Shift

Workday Evening (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Primary Location Address

117 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

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Employment type

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• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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