Sample Processing Clerk - Sort

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY:  Receive, open, code, and prepare insurance specimens for laboratory analysis.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• Computer entry of specimen information.
• Must meet minimum accessioning requirement as outlined in incentive program.
• Separate and sort specimens by specimen type.
• Dispose of tubes not suitable for testing.
• Open individual specimen packets, discard all unused material.
• Recycle plastic jars and lids when received.
• Process each specimen completely before moving to the next specimen.
• Accessioning may have up to 4 racks when needed.  Racks can hold 50 or 72 specimens, depending on sample type.
• Accessioning rate of 1 rack, 50 specimens per rack, saliva.
• Order additional testing based on demographics.
• Rack specimens by type; when required, label specimen racks and deliver racks to the appropriate department.
• Assist in processing oral fluids, urine, and blood samples for testing.
• Open shipping packages as directed.
• Collect and combine specimens for testing as directed when needed.
• Clean up work area, reload supplies for next day, place bag of trash with initials in blue carts to be checked.
• When necessary, process specimens and consents received by CRL that are not in standard tubes, but CRL is authorized to run.
• Separate and open misdirects to be sorted and routed.
• Assist management in ordering and inventory of department supplies and unloading.
• When required; help with the opening of the mis-delivered.
• Maintain and protect the confidentiality of all CRL, CRL subsidiaries, legal entities and client information.
• Be able to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local safety and health regulations that would apply to this job.

Other duties as assigned.

Additional sort responsibilities:

• Lifting and pulling large bags of up to 50 lbs.
• Unload freight from shipping containers.
• Open bags, lift to sort table.
• Scan lab pack