Maryville Lab Assistant

About Us

Mosaic Life Care is a health care system in northwest Missouri. With a vision of transforming community health by being a life-care innovator, Mosaic places the holistic needs of patients first by providing the right care at the right time and place, offering high value and quality health care.

Responsibilities

• Accurately performs and reports laboratory testing in a timely manner according to laws and regulations.
• Properly identifies patients, without exception, prior to specimen collection.
• Properly collects (phlebotomy), labels, processes, and preserves specimens in a timely manner.
• Orders necessary supplies or notifies the person responsible for ordering them.
• Operates equipment appropriately.
• Performs routine office duties such as customer service, answering the phone, stocking, cleaning, copying, faxing, coding, order entry, charges, reports, and filing.
• Takes responsibility for departmental coverage coordinating with other technologists/technicians.
• Notifies the laboratory manager or lead of any issues/complaints that may arise from customers or patients.
• Supports regulatory functions for CLIA certification, RHC, and JCAHO; including annual competency training.
• Performs all duties according to entity policies and procedures.
• Transports patient samples to the hospital laboratory for analysis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED (Required).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (Required within 90 Days).
• CPI: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention certification (Required within 90 Days).
• Certification by an approved accredited phlebotomy course (Preferred Upon Hire).
• Must be able to travel between various system facilities and off-site locations as needed.

Skills and Abilities

Essential Technical/Motor Skills

• Ability to speak clearly.
• Ability to type on a computer keyboard.
• Ability to read, write, count, and reason required.
• Good communication skills and precise hand-eye coordination.

Interpersonal Skills

• Must have very good interpersonal skills; able to give instructions and directions clearly.
• Ability to understand and think through processes.

Essential Physical Requirements

• Ability to bend, stoop, lift 20-30 pounds, and good vision.

Essential Mental Abilities

• Ability to follow protocol for performing necessary computer operations.
• Ability to concentrate on the process of inputting data to computer screens in a noisy environment with many interruptions.
• Ability to organize workflow and workload efficiently.
• Ability to adapt to changes in work area.

Essential Sensory Requirements

• Ability to see to read requisitions and labels, perform phlebotomy, and operate a computer.
• Ability to hear in order to use the telephone and communicate with clients and staff.

Exposure to Hazards

• Infectious body fluids, hazardous chemicals and fumes, and the possibility of needle-stick.

Benefits

Mosaic Life Care offers a wide array of benefits to meet each employee’s individual needs. Our benefits were designed by listening to people just like you. Mosaic also offers several perks with a focus on ensuring our employees feel valued, including concierge services, employee lounge, wellness programs, free covered parking, free on-site and virtual health clinics, and many more. When paired with compensation and recognition, it is what continues to make us the employer of choice for employees at any stage of their journey.