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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Laboratory Assistant to our growing team. If you have a background in this field, we want to hear from you.
UConn Health is looking for a Laboratory Assistant 2 with experience in acute health care and a passion for patient experience. This position is in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, primarily the Core Lab / Central Processing located in Farmington, CT.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-classified
SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, evenings, primarily Monday - Friday 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm, rotating weekends, holidays and other shifts as assigned to accommodate departmental needs, 30 minute unpaid meal break.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
- Assist Medical Technologists in various tasks to ensure proper operation of the Core Laboratory, Send Out, CP areas of the department.
- Triage specimens (blood, urine, stool, etc.) from pneumatic tube system, courier/transport systems (receive inpatient and outpatient specimens), in accordance with laboratory policy.
- Properly handle specimens in a timely manner while ensuring accuracy of data entry into the laboratory information system.
- Request correct reference lab tests in US or on reference lab requisitions.
- Responsible for managing specimens where testing is not performed at UConn Laboratory Medicine to reference laboratories, according to their specifications.
- Work effectively with the customer to answer specimen or other laboratory related questions in a timely manner to ensure the best patient care.
- Safely operates the track module according to manufacturer guidelines.
- Responsible for loading specimens into the automated track module.
- Process and package specimens from automated track aliquoter to reference laboratories.
- Ability to effectively spin tubes in centrifuge.
- Ability to pour off specimens for send outs to reference laboratories.
- Scan results in from reference laboratories.
- Handle questions, problems, follow up related to reference laboratory specimens.
- Answer phones and direct incoming calls to the correct technical bench.
- Stock and clean pour off bench.
- Maintain inventory of reference laboratory supplies.
- Checks pending logs, packing list, expected lists, and follows up on overdue reference lab
- testing.
- Manage failed fax log.
- Follow up to specimens/issues in problem basket.
- Performs other duties as assigned or directed to ensure smooth operation of the Core Laboratory.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of laboratory equipment, procedures, techniques, and terminology
- Ability to carry out written and oral instructions
- Ability to perform calculations according to prescribed procedures, keep technical records and prepare reports
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
- Two (2) years of experience in related laboratory work.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- One (1) year of the General Experience must have been at the level of Laboratory Assistant 1 or above.
GENERAL EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION ALLOWED:
- College training in the biological or physical sciences may be substituted for the General Experience based on fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years for an associate degree.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- One year or more experience in a clinical or research lab setting.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Incumbents in this class must be willing to undergo periodic tests or immunizations for communicable diseases as necessary.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Incumbents in this class may occasionally be required to lift standard laboratory equipment, supplies and/or bodies; may be exposed to some risk of injury from such elements as toxic vapors and toxic and/or disease carrying substances; may be exposed to moderately disagreeable conditions.
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.
