Laboratory Technician Assistant 1

Inova Health; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement: Inova matches the first 5%

Tuition and student loan assistance: $

Mental health support: 25 sessions per

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Inova Health in Sterling, VA is seeking a dedicated Laboratory Technician Assistant 1 to join our Blood Donor Services team. This full-time day position operates Monday–Friday with every other weekend, 06:00 am to 1:30 pm, and training from 1:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Responsibilities include receiving, processing, labeling, and shipping blood products, performing thorough visual inspections to ensure product quality, and operating and maintaining laboratory equipment.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• No prior experience required.
• Preferred: Previous lab processing experience.
• Preferred: 6 months’ experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, store, and package specimens per lab protocols to preserve integrity.
• Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders to optimize performance.
• Handle patient registration/billing/test orders to ensure correct testing and billing.
• Perform proper specimen collection and accurate labeling per policy.
• Provide excellent patient and customer service using AIDET and ensure accurate results.

Skills

AIDET principles

Team collaboration

Patient service

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Laboratory Technician Assistant 1

Inova Blood Donor Services,

Job Description

Inova located in Sterling VA, is looking for a dedicated Laboratory Technician Assistant 1 to join the team! This role will be Full-time Day Shift: Monday-Friday, Every Other Weekend, 06:00am-1:30pm. The primary responsibilities for this position include receiving, processing, labeling, and shipping blood products. Additionally, the role involves performing thorough visual inspections to ensure all blood products meet rigorous quality standards prior to distribution, as well as operating and maintaining laboratory equipment. Training period will be in the afternoons from 1:30pm-8:30pm. Inova is consistently ranked as national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave and more.

Laboratory Technician Assistant 1 Job Responsibilities

• Accurately manages specimen preparation steps, storage, and packaging for transport of specimens according to Lab protocols preserving specimen integrity and quality that effects laboratory testing.
• Communicates effectively and works cooperatively with others (Inova coworkers; physicians, physician office administration and staff; care facility staff and leadership, government facility staff and leaders) to optimize job performance and foster working relationships.
• Performs patient registration/billing/test order procedures accurately and efficiently to ensure correct testing, reporting, billing and regulatory compliance.
• This role performs proper and timely specimen collection and accurately labels all specimens according to Inova policy.
• Provides excellent patient and customer service by using AIDET principles and assuring the correctness and quality of technical information and directions provided to customers is appropriate and performs proper and timely specimen collection by confirming patient, collecting specimens in proper tubes, utilizing venipuncture/capillary techniques, and accurately labeling the specimens to ensure accurate patient results.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: High School diploma or GED equivalent.
• Years of Experience: no experience required

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous lab processing experience
• 6 months’ experience

About Us

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.