Laboratory Client Support Technician

ARUP Laboratories; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Lab Client Support Technician provides technical and preanalytic support for a designated division of technical operations and clients, handling specimen information such as integrity, volume, test clarification, and missing specimens.

This role supports customers, educates on resources and testing, builds relationships, and ensures timely communication.

Responsibilities

• Understands appropriate collection, handling, and transportation of specimens.
• Accurately processes specimens according to established departmental procedures.
• Evaluates specimens for acceptability and follows the appropriate procedures for specimens that do not meet acceptance criteria.
• Initiates problem resolution for testing requests and specimen issues.
• Develops proficiency with laboratory information systems including ANSR, ESP, IMS, Millennium, MasterControl, LMS, CRM, and eExcept.
• Receives and initiates telephone calls to/from customers and laboratories in a timely and courteous manner.
• Provides education, guidance, and troubleshooting to customers regarding available resources, testing and application utility.
• Maintains competency on pre-analytic equipment, maintenance and operation as needed for department support.
• Maintains work area and documents cleaning and maintenance as required.
• Serves as a liaison between technical sections and customers.
• Builds and maintains customer relationships throughout all communications with a positive, professional and empathetic understanding.
• Documents customer communications, resolutions, issues, and appropriate follow-up.
• Other duties as defined.

Job description

Hourly rate is an estimate only which includes shift differential for nights, evenings, or weekend shifts. Overall hourly rates will vary based on schedule.

Schedule

7-On/7-Off A week

8:00 PM - 6:30 AM

Training Schedule

Monday - Friday (40 hrs/wk)

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Department: Exception Handling - 237

Hourly rate is an estimate only which includes shift differential for nights, evenings, or weekend shifts. Overall hourly rates will vary based on schedule.

Primary Purpose

The Lab Client Support Technician provides technical and preanalytic support services for a designated division of technical operations and clients. Contact clients with specimen information such as specimen integrity, volume, test clarification, and missing specimens. Provides a supportive link between customers and all other areas of the company.

About ARUP

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ARUP proudly hires top talent to create a work environment of diversity, professional growth and continuous development. Our workforce is committed to the important service we provide to over one million patients each month. We always strive for excellence and have a strong desire to have involvement with the advances in medicine and the role laboratory services plays within each patient’s life. We never forget that there is a patient behind every specimen we receive.

We are looking for individuals who want to contribute to ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence. Consider joining our dynamic team.

Essential Functions

• Understands appropriate collection, handling, and transportation of specimens.
• Accurately processes specimens according to established departmental procedures. May include specimen triaging, routing, and storing.
• Evaluates specimens for acceptability and follows the appropriate procedures for specimens that do not meet acceptance criteria. Initiates problem resolution.
• Processes requests for add on testing.
• Develops proficiency with laboratory information systems including ANSR, ESP, IMS, Millennium, MasterControl, LMS, CRM, and eExcept.
• Receives and initiates telephone calls to/from customers and laboratories in a timely and courteous manner. May provide verified test results available in the LIS, as requested, to authenticated individuals.
• Provides education, guidance, and troubleshooting to customers regarding available resources, testing and application utility.
• Maintains competency on pre-analytic equipment, maintenance and operation as needed for department support.
• Maintains work area. Cleans bench tops and equipment as needed and daily at the end of the work shift. Documents cleaning and maintenance as required.
• Serves as a liaison between technical sections and customers.
• Builds and maintains customer relationships throughout all communications while providing a positive, professional and empathetic understanding.
• Documents customer communications, resolutions, issues, and appropriate follow-up.
• Other duties as defined.

Physical And Other Requirements

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.
• PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company/departmental policies.
• ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Absolute integrity in the accurate identification of samples, test performance, and reporting of results
• Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.