Healthcare Technician Senior

Title: Healthcare Technician Senior

State Role Title: Direct Service Associate II

Hiring Range: $46,490.25 - $48,882

Pay Band: 2

Agency: Virginia Department of Health

Location: RICHMOND-HQ

Agency Website: www.vdh.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is dedicated to protecting and promoting the health of Virginians. The VDH is made up of a statewide Central Office in Richmond and 35 local health districts.

The Richmond & Henrico County Health Districts (RHHD) are on the forefront of Public Health and Population Health. Our mission is to protect health, champion equity, and partner to address local needs. We accomplish this by exposing and addressing the root causes of health disparities and protecting health through disease prevention and monitoring, providing clinical services, nutrition services, environmental health services, vital records, emergency planning, and building health equity by partnering with communities and working collaboratively across sectors. WE ARE PUBLIC HEALTH!

Richmond Health district is looking for an experienced candidate to serve as their Health Care Technician Senior. This position will follow a direct protocol, policy or procedure provide technical support to professional medical and nursing staff. Duties consist of the following routine clinical tasks: collection of laboratory specimens, performing adult venipuncture and adult and pediatric capillary sticks, and performing clinical laboratory tests to include hemoglobin, hematocrit, glucose, urine pregnancy, fecal occult blood, sedimentation rate and urine dipsticks. Collect sputum samples. Assesses a client for changes in condition based on an established protocol approved by VDH. Sterilizes instruments, inventories and orders supplies, maintains logs, files and records, collects clinical data and compiles statistics. Works under the supervision of a licensed provider. Evidence of specific training in performing specialized duties and functions based on area of assignment is required.

The Virginia Department of Health offers 12 paid holidays, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, retirement plans (including 401a Cash Match and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan) as well as sick, family/personal, and annual leave.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience performing health screening tests and procedures, including venipuncture. Phlebotomy experience and documentation of phlebotomy
• Knowledge of basic clinical and laboratory procedures and basic medical terminology
• Ability to work with patients of all ages and ethnicities and to work with a team; excellent customer service and communication skills; ability to problem solve, follow directions, set priorities; organize time to accomplish work; ability to provide patient referrals based on clinician orders; complete patient labs as needed and perform clerical activities including greeting patients, scheduling appointments, filing documents and using computers
• Familiar with specimen collection and processing
• Required to maintain a valid driver's license and adhere to VDH's driver safety policies

Additional Considerations

• Experience in public or health care setting and cleaning and sterilization of surgical equipment
• Office support experience in a medical setting and multilingual communication skills preferred.
• Bi-lingual and experience with diverse cultures

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

VDH accepts only on-line applications. Faxed, mailed, or e-mailed applications will not be considered. Applications are accepted until 11:55 p.m. on the job closing date. Applications and/or resumes should include relevant work history which indicates your qualifications for this position. Supplemental questions are encouraged to be answered in a comprehensive manner and reference any pertinent knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as any previous experience that relates to the position.

Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a state and federal criminal history background check and the Department of Social Service’s Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry check, U.S. HHSIG