Clinical Lab Assistant

About the role

Functions as part of a dynamic and engaging laboratory team in a professional setting. Facilitates laboratory organization and patient care, working closely with doctors, nurses, and medical laboratory scientists.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes Electronic Medical Record and/or Laboratory Information System to place orders, receive specimens, route specimens, track specimens, store specimens, label specimens using the appropriate policy and procedure, and query test results.
• Provides clerical, administrative, and customer service support to the department. Answers phones and provides information to nursing floor and physicians, office staff, couriers and patients. Dispatch of couriers, as required.
• Communicates test results and/or other reports to nursing units/physician offices. This may be in electronic form or printed form. This may include communication to providers, nurses, medical assistants, physician’s assistants or others working within the units or offices.
• Maintains supply inventory. Assists in the training and orientation of new associates.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Required Community college program, nursing student, EMT student, healthcare related program in progress.
• Previous experience in healthcare and/or clinical laboratory preferred.

Qualifications

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.). May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• May be expected to push/pull gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items.
• Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Benefits

Benefits Eligible: Yes
Shift Details: Afternoon shifts starting at 12:00 or 2:00pm with rotating weekends starting at 5:00am, 9:00am or 1:00pm.

Pay

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$18.94 - $24.62

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours 24

Skills

• Computer Literacy
• Communication
• Laboratory Operations
• Regulatory Requirements
• Teamwork

Benefits

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Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.). May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• May be expected to push/pull gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items.
• Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location

Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital
Work City: Provo
Work State: Utah

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