CLA Team Lead - Core Lab

Kettering Health • Beavercreek, OH

2d

About The Position

Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. Our mission is to live God’s love by promoting and restoring health. Our commitment to our patients is to help individuals be their best. With that context, safety is our top priority. We provide an integrated system of healthcare experts committed to providing exceptional care.

Requirements

• High school diploma required
• 5 years’ experience in a laboratory clerical position required
• Ability to type 40 WPM.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and follow written and verbal instructions and procedures.
• Ability to provide verbal info to physicians and patients, tactfully.
• Ability to perform all clerical functions in the department.
• Ability to remember and consistently apply all the details necessary to collect and transport specimens properly and to use the lab computer.
• Ability to write or print clearly.
• Ability to accurately identify patients and recognize any differences in spelling of names or listing of hospital numbers.
• Ability to communicate well to get along with patients and other lab personnel.
• Ability to learn and use all computer programs related to clerical activities.
• BLS - Basic Life Support required

Responsibilities

• Is thoroughly familiar with all clerical functions in the department.
• Uses computer systems to obtain and accession requests for laboratory tests and perform other related computer functions.
• Maintains files of laboratory requests and tests.
• Answers the telephone and greets patients and visitors.
• Prepares sample for send out to reference laboratories and processes results when reports are returned.
• Monitors the activities of the morgue.
• Collects blood samples by venipuncture and capillary puncture.
• Instruct the patients in the collection of urine samples and drug screens.
• Participates in the training and retaining of clerical personnel and supervises clerical personnel when assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees