Lab Associate- Per Diem days

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. The Laboratory Associate provides services as part of the patient care team, handling all aspects of specimen collection, processing, and transport.

Responsibilities

• Technical responsibilities
  • Prioritize processing and transport of routine and stat specimens.
  • Ensure integrity of specimens by following guidelines (inverting tubes, refrigeration, clotting, centrifugation).
  • Comply with regulations, policies, and procedures for packaging and transport.
• Clinical responsibilities
  • Identify patients/specimens according to established policies.
  • Perform age‑appropriate phlebotomy on neonatal, pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.
  • Collect specimens accurately and timely; follow labeling policies.
• Clerical responsibilities
  • Enter orders and register patients accurately and promptly.
  • Perform computer functions (print results, reprint labels, standing orders, batching).
  • Maintain organized, legible records (temperature logs, add‑on, Stericycle).
  • Monitor supply inventory and keep the work area neat.
  • Use proper phone etiquette per hospital standards.
• Act as a liaison between customers and the laboratory, answering inquiries, resolving problems, and relaying results.
• May perform microbiology tasks such as planting cultures, preparing slides for staining, and incubating plates at proper temperatures.
• Assume responsibility for supply ordering and inventory control.
• Comply with all State, Federal, Hospital, and Laboratory policies and quality‑control guidelines.
• Participate in multi‑campus rotation and work weekends, holidays, and additional shifts as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent (preferred).
• Successful completion of an approved phlebotomy program (required).
• Completion of a phlebotomy internship (preferred).
• At least 1 year of relevant experience (preferred).
• Phlebotomy certification (preferred).

Pay

Base hourly wage range: $21.00 – $28.26. Actual compensation may vary based on seniority, education, training, experience, certifications, location, job responsibilities, shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime, and other applicable factors.

Schedule

Requires flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and additional shifts beyond the primary schedule as needed.