Lab Support Technician I, Lab, Per Diem

UMass Memorial Health•Worcester, MA

10d•$15 - $27•Onsite

About The Position

Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day. Performs a variety of routine procedures with the collection, receiving, triaging and/or processing of laboratory requisitions and specimens involving technical and data entry duties.

Requirements

High School graduate; familiarity with data entry and/or word processor and medical terminology.

Responsibilities

Receives specimens from couriers and checks manifests to verify appropriate count.
Logs and assigns accession numbers to specimens and requisitions received.
Sorts and triages requisitions and specimens to appropriate workstation; completes and files manifests.
Answers telephones and communicates pertinent information.
Send specimens and carriers to various sites using pneumatic tube or dumbwaiter.
Performs minor troubleshooting of pneumatic tube through computer.
Processes specimens including centrifugation, pour-off, aliquoting, and labeling.
Registers short form outreach specimens received from clients.
Performs a variety of routine duties to assist in laboratory processes, such as: Preparing reagents and stains, preparing slides and specimens, drawing blood, autoclaving and washing of glass wear, disposal of biohazardous waste, collecting occasional specimens from outreach patients at Biotech I.
Performs assigned duties to assist in ensuring, an adequate inventory of supplies for assigned area.
Monitors inventory levels and stores equipment and supplies in a neat and orderly manner.
Maintains accurate records of processes performed, using manual and computer-based systems.
Logs in error book specimens that are received without proper tubes or requisitions.
Complies with all laboratory quality, health and safety policies, regulations and requirements and with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.