Lab Assistant (FT, Evenings) - Cherry Hill

Job Details

The Laboratory Assistant supports lab operations by processing and handling patient specimens for diagnostic testing in an accurate and timely manner and following established protocols. The Lab Assistant is responsible for receiving, centrifuging, storing, and transporting/distributing samples according to protocol in order to maintain sample integrity. The Lab Assistant provides customer service in all interactions with patients, physician and nursing personnel when providing instruction and assistance regarding laboratory testing results. May perform basic laboratory techniques and or testing congruent with CLIA requirements.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

• Cooperates with laboratory divisions and nursing personnel to ensure proper collection of adequate and appropriate specimens for testing. Communicates with Nursing Personnel when patient refuses and uses hospital resources when language barriers exist.

• Adheres to department policy involving the proper identification of a patient and proper labeling of blood samples.

• Maintains orderly and timely flow of specimens to the technical departments in order to expedite the analysis of samples.

• Reviews lab requisitions from physicians for accuracy, completeness, medical necessity, and hospital’s ability to perform test and/or route specimen for testing.

• Prepares specimens for analysis, including centrifuging, aliquoting, plating, etc. Transports and stores specimens for future analysis.

• Performs registrations per hospital policy in order to provide assistance to patients and hospital personnel.

• May coordinates the loading of prepared patient samples on the automation lines to ensure timely sampling (where required by local laboratory needs).

• Other lab assistance duties as assigned by the supervisor or manager, including training other Lab Assistants as directed.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent AND Experience: 1-2 years’ previous Laboratory Experience preferred. Prior laboratory assistance and/or phlebotomy training required at certain laboratory locations.

Salary Range

$17.78 to $25.33 Hourly

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience, skills and qualifications. This position is not eligible for an annual incentive.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Kennedy University Hospitals, Inc

Primary Location Address

2201 Chapel Ave West & Cooper Landing Rd, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 c