Clinical Laboratory Assistant - part-time

As the Clinical Lab Assistant you will process requests and receive clinical testing material within the Pathology Laboratory; accessions, processes, and routes clinical testing material to appropriate testing area; transcribe/scans relevant clinical information into Pathology case; handles requests for laboratory reports, specimen tracking, and laboratory requests via phone, email, mail, and other correspondence methods; assists with the performance of laboratory quality control, equipment maintenance, and quality assurance activities; maintains laboratory supply inventories and processes requests for supply orders; provides administrative support to Pathologists as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Read, understand, and comply with Laboratory and RPCI Policy with departmental policies, protocols, and procedures; ensure that all staff members follow instructions. Answers telephones, routes callers, takes messages, and provides routine information to parties requesting services from the clinical laboratories.
• Transcribes, prints, sorts, mails, faxes, duplicates, and distributes various medical reports, records, files, forms, correspondence, proposals, charts, and other items for the organization.
• Obtains required Release of Information signatures for external routing of laboratory reports/materials as necessary.
• Receives and accessions laboratory testing material within the Laboratory Information System(s); completes necessary processing and orders.
• Files and removes laboratory material from physical inventory locations; maintains the integrity of the physical/electronic inventory for retrieval and chain of custody of stored material.
• Retrieves relevant laboratory testing information from multiple information systems.
• Handles laboratory specimens utilizing appropriate blood/body fluid precautions.
• Performs immediate laboratory specimen processing.
• Packages, tracks, and receives materials for courier transport between laboratory, reference laboratory, and pathology offices.
• Ensures compliance with required HIPAA and de-identification requirements; packages diagnostic specimens for external shipment following regulatory shipping requirements.
• Assists in receiving, storing, distributing, and controlling of laboratory supply inventories.
• Maintains, files, and stores relevant laboratory documentation in accordance with relevant regulatory standards for required storage periods.
• Enhances professional growth and development by participating in educational programs, reading current literature and participating in in-service meetings and workshops.
• Prepares other written documentation as required by the profession and the department; maintains, distributes, analyzes and projects information for required records, reports and statistics as directed.

Requirements

Education / Certification & Experience

• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma
• Two (2) years of technical laboratory or technical medical experience; or equivalent combination of training and experience