Lab Assistant - Frost Street - Variable Shifts - Full Time

Hours: Variable shift start and end times, 8-hour shifts (40 hours per week). Every other weekend required. No on-call.

Pay

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position: $25.550 – $35.680 per hour. The actual pay rate and pay grade will be dependent on factors including years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, and employer business practices.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical knowledge, expertise, and judgment to support the Sharp HealthCare (SHC) mission and scope of laboratory services.
• Documentation and processing of lab results.
• Assists with pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical test processes.
• Completes assigned duties and responsibilities without error using written policies, procedures, and other appropriate resources.
• Performs new procedures and policies within acceptable training time intervals; meets department turnaround time goals.
• Evaluates work (e.g., billing, charting) for accuracy; verifies questionable findings with thorough investigation and appropriate follow-through; seeks supervisory assistance as needed.
• Performs clerical functions related to patient reception, noninvasive sample collection, and demonstrates assessment of work-related factors with regard to patient age and population-specific groups.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Equipment Management

• Utilizes all equipment (including phone, copier, fax, etc.), instruments, products, and other tools per manufacturer’s and training instructions and according to established procedures; facilitates issue resolution.
• Demonstrates competency and efficient use of all tool applications (IT, PC, other system/software) and equipment to produce the end product.
• Performs and validates required preventive and corrective maintenance on equipment/tools.
• Reports and documents equipment/tool/reagent issues and failures.
• Actively manages inventory expiration dates and evaluates consumables (reagent/supply) inventory to prevent shortages; alerts ordering personnel.
• Removes defective equipment from use, documents problems, and notifies appropriate personnel for repair; verifies equipment inspections are up-to-date.
• Follows through on problem resolution.
• Verifies equipment safety inspections are up-to-date.

Quality Assurance

• Completes and validates daily position tasks within expected timeframes to meet applicable Quality Assurance indicator goal expectations.
• Proactively initiates communication and works cooperatively with others to successfully complete work assignments.
• Establishes effective working relationships between internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability in work practices and adjusts to unscheduled situations.
• Positively embraces and is receptive to change and actively participates in the process.
• Coordinates and completes processes to meet standards established for maintaining quality testing processes.
• Assists in identifying errors or variances and follows through with investigation, correction, and documentation as directed by lab leadership.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent (required).
• 1 year of experience in a laboratory (preferred).