Lab Assistant

Job Title

Pay Range: $14.00hr - $19.00hr

Requirement/Must Have

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Medical assistant training is helpful.
• Math and science courses are preferred.
• Ability to establish work priorities and handle several tasks for maximum workstation efficiency.
• Ability to retain information once learned.
• Ability to interact with coworkers and customers with courtesy and respect.

Responsibilities

• Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist professional staff and facilitate production.
• Sort and receive specimens in the department.
• Perform routine instrument maintenance on designated equipment.
• Perform laboratory tasks including centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, and recording data such as temperature charts.
• Manage specimen storage and retrieval.
• Prepare reagents and media in the department.
• Prepare specimens at workstations for testing, including building worklists and aliquoting specimens into sample cups.
• Check specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, and slide preparation.
• Perform QA/QC duties as assigned.
• Resolve pending lists and locate missing samples.
• Decontaminate work areas.
• Perform weekly radioactive wipe tests.
• Maintain files for department records.
• Change gas cylinders.
• Follow all PPE requirements and safety regulations.
• Use laboratory computer systems and operate PCs.
• Dispose of biohazardous material.
• Complete training and competency checklists as appropriate.

Skills

• Laboratory functions.
• Specimen processing.
• Instrument maintenance.
• Centrifugation.
• Data recording.
• Reagent preparation.
• Aliquoting.
• QA/QC.
• Safety compliance.
• Laboratory Information Systems (LIS).

Qualification And Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.