Laboratory Attendant 2

Public Health OntarioKingston, ON
CA$29 - CA$32Onsite

About The Position

This posting is to fill a current vacancy for a Laboratory Attendant 2 at the PHO Kingston Laboratory. The role involves providing technical laboratory services to the environmental laboratory and supporting laboratory operations for the testing of specimens submitted to PHO Laboratories.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of medical terminology and laboratory safety procedures to provide a range of laboratory services in support of operations.
  • Knowledge of computer systems, familiarity with laboratory information systems, MS office products such as Word and Excel.
  • Proficient computer skills necessary to work with automated, computer driven equipment.
  • Certification as a Medical Laboratory Technician from a recognized community college program or relevant training and experience.
  • Oral communication skills to exchange information and clarify test requests or discrepancies with other team members as well as with external clients (i.e., physicians).
  • Written communication skills to record information into logs/records.

Responsibilities

  • Logs, sorts, labels all specimens submitted for laboratory testing/examination.
  • Transports samples to testing laboratory as required.
  • Handles, prepares and processes medical samples (e.g. culture media and reagents) for identification of micro-organisms, reagents and solutions and testing up to the point of result interpretation (e.g. set up of cultures, staining, extraction, loading analyzers).
  • Handles, prepares, processes and enters data entry results of water samples.
  • Uses automated equipment or manual methods to prepare and aliquot human samples for testing.
  • Uses PHO Laboratory Information System to prepare worksheets or enter data, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality of data.
  • Prepares, loads and unloads laboratory analyzers.
  • Performs inventory management functions including ordering, unpacking and storing of laboratory goods.
  • Files, stores, discards laboratory samples.
  • Cleans and maintains laboratory equipment, cleans and disinfects laboratory work areas.
  • Maintains laboratory stock supplies.
  • Assists with set-up of quality control and maintenance of stock cultures.
  • Answers telephone and resolves problems related to samples (e.g., incomplete information, mismatched tests and information, leaking samples).
  • Performs other duties or projects as assigned.
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