Laboratory Aide

Hartford Healthcare•Manchester, CT

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lab Aide reports to Laboratory Leadership and is responsible for patient registration, accessioning, requisition entry, specimen processing, customer service inquires, answering and directing telephone calls, registration and ICD-9 coding, problem solving, testing-to-billing-or-other patient investigations and all other front-end functions performed in laboratory receiving areas. All duties are performed with minimal supervision and/or semi-technical specimen processing in Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology or Blood Bank.

Requirements

A minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent GED is required.
Must have a current and valid driver’s license for occasional travel between ECHN business sites.
This position requires the incumbent have strong English verbal as well as basic English writing ability and be courteous and customer service oriented with good interpersonal skills and a proficiency in the use of computers.
Duties of this position require the incumbent be adaptable to a changing workload and be familiar with, and able to operate computer terminals, centrifuges, telephones, pneumatic tube systems, copies and fax machines.
Cytology Lab Aides will have the ability to perform the technical tasks of cytology preparation including mixing body fluids with the appropriate fixative and performing the manual and automated staining and cover slipping preparation.
Requires weekends and holidays.

Nice To Haves

Some previous Lab work and experience with the Meditech and CoPath system is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

patient registration
accessioning
requisition entry
specimen processing
customer service inquires
answering and directing telephone calls
registration and ICD-9 coding
problem solving
testing-to-billing-or-other patient investigations
front-end functions performed in laboratory receiving areas
semi-technical specimen processing in Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology or Blood Bank