Specimen Processor II, FT Days

At Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, we take pride in offering a dynamic and fulfilling work environment. Joining our team means becoming an essential part of a leading healthcare institution that is committed to providing exceptional patient care and advancing medical research.

Position Highlights: 

• Shift Schedule:  Full Time, Days may include holidays
• Department: Central Processing Laboratory
• Location:  Winston Salem, NC

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Amazing health insurance with the option of copay or HSA eligible plans
• Wellness Incentives: Up to $1,350/year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program
• Education: Eligible for our Prepaid College Tuition Assistance program (up to $5,250/year)!
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions

Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent with two years of experience in a laboratory specimen processing area required. 
• Experience includes phlebotomy, urine collection, and/or centrifuging, aliquotting, and transporting blood and body fluid samples. 
• Experience may also include slide preparation and staining, microbiology setup, reagent preparation, instrument loading and/or point-of-care testing. 
• Completes a minimum of four continuing education hours outside of annual in-service requirements.

The Successful Candidate will assume responsibility for a variety of functions, which include, but are not limited to:

• Obtains and sorts specimens from various delivery sources including the pneumatic tube system, specimen window, and courier services. 
• Verifies acceptability requirements are met for clinical laboratory specimens prior to receipt into the laboratory information system. 
• Verifies labeling acceptability and specimen stability requirements are met for anatomic pathology specimens. 
• Identifies and resolves unacceptable specimens, such as those with labeling, specimen type, or specimen stability issues. If unable to resolve, brings them to the attention of a Medical Laboratory Assistant on the shift. 
• Appropriately receives instrument ready barcoded specimens into the laboratory information system. 
• Identifies and processes orders in the Electronic Medical Record for specimens received without instrument ready barcode labels. 
• Identifies and processes orders for irretrievable body fluid specimens. 8. Identifies and modifies incorrect orders placed based on specific order requirements for various specimen types.
• Appropriately receives samples with orders placed in the Outreach laboratory information system. 
• Enters employee exposure lab orders into the Outreach laboratory information system. 
• Enters orders from a paper requisition into the Electronic Medical Record or Outreach laboratory information system. 
• Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of specimen triage and distribution to appropriate laboratory sections. 
• Performs specimen processing techniques including centrifugation and aliquotting. 
• Loads clinical laboratory specimens onto the automated testing track. 
• Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of troubleshooting of laboratory order and specimen issues. 
• Provides coverage of inbound calls for Laboratory Client Services during their off hours.  

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300