Phlebotomist/Lab Support Tech - Milford Regional - Per Diem, Outpatient Sites

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Pay

Hiring Range: $15.00 - $27.00. The final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule

• Monday through Friday, with every third weekend and holiday
• Scheduled Hours:
  • Monday-Friday: 6:00am-8:00pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 9:00am-1:00pm
• Shift: 4 - Mixed Shift, 8 Hours

About the Role

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence, and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts. We are more than 20,000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community, and each other.

This position performs a variety of routine procedures involving the collection, receiving, triaging, and/or processing of laboratory requisitions and specimens, including technical and data entry duties.

Responsibilities

• Receives specimens from couriers and checks manifests to verify appropriate count.
• Logs and assigns accession numbers to specimens and requisitions received.
• Sorts and triages requisitions and specimens to appropriate workstation; completes and files manifests.
• Answers telephones and communicates pertinent information.
• Sends specimens and carriers to various sites using pneumatic tube or dumbwaiter.
• Performs minor troubleshooting of pneumatic tube through computer.
• Processes specimens including centrifugation, pour-off, aliquoting, and labeling.
• Registers short form outreach specimens received from clients.

Qualifications

• Required: High School graduate; familiarity with data entry and/or word processor and medical terminology.
• Preferred: Unless certification, licensure, or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility may be substituted.

Department-specific competencies, including age-specific competencies, will be developed and maintained. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

This position may have a signing bonus available; eligibility will be confirmed during the interview process.