Lab Assistant (FT, Days) - Center City

Job Details

The Laboratory Assistant supports laboratory operations by collecting, processing, and managing patient specimens to ensure accurate and timely diagnostic testing in accordance with established protocols. This role is responsible for maintaining specimen integrity throughout the pre-analytical process, including receiving, centrifuging, aliquoting, storing, and distributing samples. The Laboratory Assistant collaborates with clinical and laboratory personnel to facilitate efficient workflows and resolve collection or testing issues. This position may also perform basic laboratory techniques and testing consistent with CLIA requirements.

Job Description

Job Duties

• Collect, identify, label, and process patient specimens in accordance with department policies, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with established standards
• Prepare and transport specimens for analysis, including centrifuging, aliquoting, and storage, while maintaining orderly and timely flow to technical departments
• Review laboratory requisitions for accuracy, medical necessity, and the institution's ability to perform or route testing, communicating with clinical staff as needed to resolve issues
• Support patient registration, assist with specimen automation loading, and collaborate with nursing and laboratory personnel to facilitate efficient laboratory operations
• Conduct phlebotomy via venipuncture or micro-technique and provide training and guidance to other laboratory assistants as directed

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED
• Less than 1 year Prior laboratory assistance and/or phlebotomy training required at certain laboratory locations.

Additional Qualifications

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples: Push/pull patients on bed, stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. *Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Primary Location Address

117 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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