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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These are the values that define UConn Health, and we are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking for a Laboratory Aide to join our General Dermatology Department to assist with Dermatopathology. This full-time position is located in Farmington, CT.
At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing routine non-technical laboratory work with emphasis on cleaning and sterilizing glassware, instruments and laboratory utensils and preparing laboratories/materials for tests, experiments and/or research.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
- Cleans and sterilizes glassware, utensils and laboratory instruments.
- Cleans laboratory.
- Prepares and labels laboratory products and specimen/sample kits for mailing and distribution.
- Collects and prepares samples for analysis.
- Pours media into test tubes.
- Plugs and sterilizes test tubes.
- Operates basic laboratory equipment such as autoclaves. washers. centrifuges. dry ovens and trip balances.
- Receives and numbers incoming specimens/samples.
- Keeps records of samples. supplies and equipment and assists in maintaining laboratory inventory.
- Feeds, waters and cares for laboratory animals.
- May prepare simple media. solutions and reagents according to written instructions.
- Sorts and files slides and blocks.
- Performs related duties as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL & ABILITY:
- Ability to understand and carry out written and oral instructions, keep simple records and perform simple arithmetical calculations.
- Manual dexterity.
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
Experience and/or training that could be expected to provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities listed above.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
Laboratory aide experience is a plus.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Incumbents in this class may be required to lift standard laboratory equipment, trays/boxes of glassware and/or bodies; may be exposed to some risk of injury from such things as rabid animals, broken glass, toxic vapors, toxic and/or disease carrying substances; may be exposed to moderately disagreeable conditions.
SCHEDULE: 40 hours per week. Monday-Friday, 5:30am-2:00pm.
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
