Medical Laboratory Assistant- Lab Mansfield CTH

Nationwide Children's Hospital • Mansfield, OH

20h • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides clerical and patient care support, primarily focusing on specimen collection and processing. Responsibilities include patient registration, specimen accessioning, various types of specimen collection (venipuncture, capillary, sweat chloride, and other miscellaneous collections), ensuring proper specimen preparation and processing, and performing waived laboratory testing. The role also involves maintaining laboratory operations through equipment maintenance, quality control, and preventive maintenance, while upholding applicable laws and regulations. The assistant is expected to deliver service excellence and quality patient care by adapting communication styles, addressing client concerns, troubleshooting, and efficiently managing interruptions in a changing environment. Active engagement in fostering mutual respect and inclusiveness, and participation in continuing education programs are also expected.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Technical skills
• Organizational skills
• Ability to multitask
• Attention to detail
• Computer experience
• Interpersonal relationship skills to collaborate with internal and external customers
• Effective in both written and oral communications
• Efficient in collaborative and independent work

Nice To Haves

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification
• CPR certification
• One-year of clinical laboratory/ medical experience and office experience
• Two years of phlebotomy experience

Responsibilities

• Completes technical tasks such as specimen accessioning, specimen preparation, and processing, and specimen delivery and storage.
• May include phlebotomy and other specimen collection.
• Performs clerical tasks and specimen accessioning in accordance with testing protocols and criteria.
• Maintains laboratory operations by performing equipment maintenance, quality control, and preventive maintenance.
• Performs waived laboratory testing, documents patient reports, quality control, maintenance, and troubleshooting appropriately.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and upholds applicable laws and regulations related to position and laboratory operations.
• Documents daily, weekly, and monthly tasks on assigned work area task lists.
• Delivers service excellence and quality patient care through adjusting communication styles to adapt to various cultural differences, addressing client concerns by researching problems and identifying resolutions, using basic troubleshooting skills, and efficiently handling interruptions and functions with changing environments or circumstances.
• Provides feedback that is useful and assists in individual improvement.
• Actively engages in and supports efforts to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect and inclusiveness.
• Participates in continuing education programs.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices.
• A Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research.
• A chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees