Pay Range: $17.20hr - $22.00hr
Job Overview:
The Laboratory Assistant performs various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and facilitate production.
Job Requirements:
- Sort and receive specimens in the department.
- Perform routine instrument maintenance on designated equipment.
- Perform laboratory tasks including centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, recording data on temperature charts, and managing specimen storage and retrieval.
- Prepare reagents and media in the department.
- Prepare specimens at workstations for testing, including building worklists, aliquoting specimens into sample cups, checking specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, and slide preparation.
- Perform QA/QC duties as assigned.
- Resolve pending lists and locate missing samples.
- Decontaminate work areas.
- Perform weekly radioactive wipe tests.
- Maintain files for department records.
- Change gas cylinders.
- Follow all personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements and safety regulations.
- Utilize the laboratory computer system and operate PCs.
- Dispose of biohazardous material safely.
- Complete training and competency checklists as appropriate.
Education:
High school diploma or equivalent required. Medical assistant training is helpful, and coursework in math and science is preferred.
Special Requirements:
- Ability to establish work priorities and handle several tasks for maximum workstation efficiency.
- Ability to retain information once learned.
- Ability to interact with coworkers and internal and external customers with courtesy and respect.