Lab Support Technician I, Central Processing, Per Diem

HAHHH; Worcester (MA); Hybrid; USD 22,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus

Job summary

UMass Memorial Health is seeking a Laboratory Support Associate to perform routine procedures for collection, receiving, and processing of laboratory requisitions and specimens. You will handle data entry, labeling, and triage while following safety policies in a busy central processing setting.

Responsibilities include confirming manifests, logging accession numbers, answering phones, and assisting in inventory control.

Qualifications

• High School graduate with familiarity in data entry and medical terminology.
• Ability to answer phones and relay pertinent information accurately.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow lab procedures.

Responsibilities

• Receives and processes laboratory requisitions and specimens.
• Logs accession numbers and assigns paperwork to the correct workstations.
• Answers telephones and communicates pertinent information to teams.
• Performs routine lab duties including preparing reagents, slides, and labeling.
• Maintains accurate records and monitors inventory for assigned area.

Skills

Data entry

Medical terminology

Telephone communication

Education

High School diploma

Job description

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt Hiring Range: $15.81 - $28.45 Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details: Holidays - No More Than Every Third Holiday, Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) Scheduled Hours: flexible Shift: 4 - Mixed Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 0 Cost Center: 10020 - 3212 Central Processing This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Performs a variety of routine procedures with the collection, receiving, triaging and/or processing of laboratory requisitions and specimens involving technical and data entry duties.

Major Responsibilities

• Receives specimens from couriers and checks manifests to verify appropriate count.
• Logs and assigns accession numbers to specimens and requisitions received.
• Sorts and triages requisitions and specimens to appropriate workstation; completes and files manifests.
• Answers telephones and communicates pertinent information.
• Send specimens and carriers to various sites using pneumatic tube or dumbwaiter.
• Performs minor troubleshooting of pneumatic tube through computer.
• Processes specimens including centrifugation, pour-off, aliquoting, and labeling.
• Registers short form outreach specimens received from clients.
• Performs a variety of routine duties to assist in laboratory processes, such as: Preparing reagents and stains, preparing slides and specimens, drawing blood, autoclaving and washing of glass wear, disposal of biohazardous waste, collecting occasional specimens from outreach patients at Biotech I.
• Performs assigned duties to assist in ensuring, an adequate inventory of supplies for assigned area.
• Monitors inventory levels and stores equipment and supplies in a neat and orderly manner.
• Maintains accurate records of processes performed, using manual and computer-based systems.
• Logs in error book specimens that are received without proper tubes or requisitions.
• Complies with all laboratory quality, health and safety policies, regulations and requirements and with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.

Position Qualifications

License/Certification/Education: Required: High School graduate; familiarity with data entry and/or word processor and medical terminology.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other.

Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind.

If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver. No matter their responsibilities or title, every employee or “caregiver” fills an important role for our patients and their families every day.

Who is a caregiver? It’s not just the person who delivers the care. It’s all the people who make it work … and make it better.

Caregivers give everything that helps patients heal, from expertise to extra attention. They give clean, comfortable rooms. Fast, accurate answers. And an easier, less stressful experience. They give warm, reassuring smiles, and helping hands.

We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, our community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.