Clinical Laboratory Assistant - part-time

Description

Roswell Park Care Network is looking for a part time (4 days a week - Tueday-Friday 12:30pm-5:30pm) ) Clinical Lab Assistant! Training will be provided. Join our growing Community Pathology Team in Depew! JOB SUMMARY Processes requests and receives clinical testing material within the Pathology Laboratory ; accessions, processes, and routes clinical testing material to appropriate testing area; transcribes/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 BRIEF DESCRIPTION of DUTIES • Read, understand, and comply with Laboratory and RPCI Policy with departmental policies, protocols, and procedures (i.e., Procedure Manuals, Safety Manual, Compliance Manual, Automobile Policies and Procedures, Employee Handbook, and Quality Assurance Manual); and 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