Description
SHIFT: Days (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time
Methodist Hospital North East
Clinical Laboratory Assistant with Phlebotomy Experience
Laboratory Department
Full Time – Non-Exempt
Days Shift, Rotating Weekends
Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment? Jump-start your career in our Laboratory Department. Submit your application today!
Benefits:
We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program, and student loan repayment. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity.
Seeking a Clinical Laboratory Assistant with Phlebotomy Experience to join our team who works under the supervision of the Lab Director and the lab supervisors. He/she processes specimens for the section, performs routine laboratory tests for diagnosis and treatment of disease, sets up instruments and performs basic equipment maintenance. Assists with ensuring all regulatory lab standards are met through following policies and procedures of the Hospital and accrediting regulatory agencies.
The Clinical Laboratory Assistant:
- Processes specimens for the section; prepares blood smears and body fluid slides, centrifuges specimens, streaks microbiology plates, prepares specimens for transport to reference labs.
- Understands laboratory methods, demonstrates knowledge of pathological processes with correlation of disease states and test results. Independently performs specimen processing and testing to include moderate complexity testing.
- Sets up instruments and performs basic equipment maintenance. Performs basic quality control as instructed, collects quality assurance data.
- Performs clerical duties such as answering telephones, communicating verified test results by phone, typing procedures, performing data entry/retrieval as may be required, filing paperwork and slides, faxing documents, and assisting with inventory of supplies.
- May perform phlebotomy, point-of-care and waived testing as designated.
- Performs work in accordance with laboratory regulatory standards.
Qualifications
Minimum Education, Experience, Training, Required Knowledge, Skill, Abilities and Other Job-Related Characteristics:
1. Education: High School diploma or G.E.D.
2. Experience: None
3. Employee completes initial and ongoing training and competencies as defined by service
line, facility and department/unit which are specific to the needs of the patient population
served (if applicable).
4. Preferred: One year of Clinical Lab Assistant or related experience in a Clinical
Laboratory to include prior experience with a variety of lab tests.
Minimum License, Certificates, or Registrations Required: None
Be a part of an organization that invests in you. We are actively reviewing applications. Qualified candidates will be promptly contacted by our hiring managers for interviews. Submit your application today and help us raise the bar in patient care!
Methodist Hospital
Northeast has played a major role in the phenomenal economic growth experienced
in northeast Bexar County. With over 170 beds, the hospital offers a full array
of services including 24/7 emergency care, open heart surgery, cardiac
catheterizations, vascular, neurosurgery, inpatient rehabilitation, orthopedic
surgery, cancer care, intensive care and inpatient and outpatient surgeries and
procedures. It is home to the Joint Replacement Academy offering the latest
treatment options for knee and hip pain, as well as a neurosurgical program offering
services from elective spine surgeries to advanced and comprehensive brain and
spine care.
We are recognized
by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association as a Certified
Primary Stroke Center; the American College of Cardiology as an Accredited
Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI; and by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center for having a Pathway to Excellence Program. Methodist Hospital Northeast
has received the Mission: Lifeline® Bronze Receiving Quality Achievement Award
for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American
Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks
and the Texas Award for Performance Excellence. The hospital has also been
nationally recognized by Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade A. For more
information, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist
Hospital Northeast under Locations.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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