Specimen Technician - 3rd Shift
Pride Health · Clifton, NJ · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$20–$24/hrFull-time
About the role
Pride Health is hiring a Specimen Technician - 3rd Shift to support our client's healthcare facility in Clifton NJ 07012.
Responsibilities
- Sorting and receiving specimens in the department.
- Performs routine instrument maintenance on some equipment.
- Performs laboratory tasks such as centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, recording data (temperature charts), specimen storage and retrieval.
- Prepares reagents and/or media in the department.
- Prepares specimens at workstations for testing (including building worklists, aliquoting specimens into sample cups, checking specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, slide preparation).
- Performs QA/QC duties as assigned.
- Solves pending lists.
- Finds missing samples.
- Decontaminates work areas.
- Performs weekly radioactive wipe tests.
- Maintains files for department records.
- Changes gas cylinders.
- Follows all PPE requirements and all safety regulations.
- Uses the laboratory computer system as well as operates PCs.
- Disposes of biohazardous material.
- Completes training and competency checklists as appropriate.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Medical assistant training helpful.
- Math and science courses preferred.
Qualifications
This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, but rather a general description of the work performed by this position.
Skills
Not specified
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans)
- Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity)
- 401(k)-retirement savings
- Life & disability insurance
- An employee assistance program
- Legal support
- Auto, home insurance
- Pet insurance
- Employee discounts with preferred vendors
Pay
$20-$24 per hour
*Pay offered is based on experience, expertise, credentialing, and education.
Schedule
3rd shift, M-F, 10p-6:30am
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans)
- Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity)
- 401(k)-retirement savings
- Life & disability insurance
- An employee assistance program
- Legal support
- Auto, home insurance
- Pet insurance
- Employee discounts with preferred vendors
Company Information
- Pride-Health offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
- Pride Health is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- Pride Health is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.
- Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.
- For this type of employment, state law requires a criminal record check as a condition of employment. This applies to direct care staff (Examples: RN, LPN, Nurse Aides, Therapists) referred to Kentucky nursing facilities, assisted living communities, or long-term care facilities, in accordance with KRS 216.793.