Lab Specimen Processor, 40 hours, Peabody, Days

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

About the role

Under the general supervision of the Laboratory Manager, the Lab Specimen Processor is responsible for blood draw collections and supporting specimen processing workflows. Coverage may include rotating weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Ensures proper labeling and identification of specimens and requisition forms; brings discrepancies to the attention of the supervisor or senior staff and records them for quality monitoring.
• Inventories and maintains adequate supplies in an organized fashion for various laboratories; restocks workstations.
• Monitors reagent and supplies, communicating needs to maintain adequate inventory and timely purchasing.
• Receives, archives, and discards specimens according to established procedures.
• Prepares benches and work stations for each day’s specimen workload; organizes and reloads instruments and supplies for each station.
• Properly prepares infectious biohazardous waste for transport in compliance with Lahey Clinic Environmental Safety and Health Policy.
• Monitors laboratory equipment temperature and humidity readings; maintains equipment temperature charts and initiates corrective action.
• Organizes and files specimens in an established, organized specimen storage system; assists Senior Staff in specimen retrieval for additional diagnostic testing.
• Performs send-out tasks, including packing lists, scanning requisitions, and other administrative duties.
• Assists with specimen receipt and triage, ensuring proper quality monitoring methods are followed; documents discrepancies immediately.
• Responsible for equipment maintenance and upkeep, including troubleshooting and correcting basic problems.
• Monitors Satellite Accumulation Areas (SAA) within the laboratory; transports chemical waste in compliance with MWRA and hospital regulations.
• Transfers hazardous waste from work benches to SAA.
• Assists staff with routine and special projects.
• Maintains established department policies, procedures, and objectives, including quality assurance, safety, environmental, and infection control.
• Follows all JCAHO Patient Safety Goals and related Laboratory and Hospital Policies.
• Trains in Phlebotomy: drawing blood from patients and collecting and documenting specimens based on physician orders.
• Collects, documents, and transports surgical pathology specimens from on-campus clinical sites to the grossing rooms.
• Assigns cases to pathologists following proper protocol.
• Transports routine and special specimens within the hospital, maintaining diagnostic viability and specimen integrity.
• Daily exposure to formaldehyde and other hazardous chemicals and fixatives under controlled conditions.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to identify and evaluate proper specimen collection and storage.
• Manual dexterity and acuity necessary to prepare specimens, screen specimens, prepare solutions, and operate instrumentation and a computer.
• Ability to concentrate for long periods, utilize good judgment, work accurately under pressure, and handle stress to meet deadlines.
• Interpersonal verbal and written English language skills sufficient to exchange information with physicians and colleagues.
• Ability to perform venipuncture techniques.
• Skill in the use of personal computers and related software applications.
• 1-year related laboratory experience preferred, but not required.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $21.00 - $28.26 per hour. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, including seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices.

Benefits

As a health care organization, Beth Israel Lahey Health requires all staff to be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.