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Lab Assistant - Core Lab; Mount Auburn Hospital, 40hrs/wk
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Organization Facility: Mount Auburn Hospital Category: Laboratory Job ID: JR66884 Date posted: 01/17/2025Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Under the direction of the section supervisor, performs a variety of technical, clerical, and general laboratory duties to provide technically acceptable laboratory analyses to physicians and patients.Job Description:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
- Assists with the required processing of laboratory specimens including but not limited to verification of specimen identification, requisition entry when necessary, centrifugation, and pouring of aliquots.
- Performs a variety of clerical and technical procedures to prepare specimens for processing, result review, and verification.
- Answers phones, and assists with providing test result information to physicians.
- Checks inventory of supplies, and notifies supervisor when ordering may be necessary.
- Maintains work areas in a neat, clean, and orderly manner.
- Operates computer for required applications.
- Complies with requirements of accreditation and regulatory agencies; adheres to established hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
- Performs other similar or related duties as required or as directed in all sections, areas, and shifts.
- Works closely with technical and clerical staff to maintain communication related to patient tests/processing.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school degree or equivalent. Reading skills verified at ninth-grade level or better.
- Six months of laboratory experience/courses preferred.
- Must have good organizational skills.
- Able to work independently on assigned tasks.
Physical Requirements & Environment:
- Exposure to infectious disease and to possible carcinogenic chemicals.
- Minimal exposure to caustic agents, acids, and fumes.
- Occasional prolonged standing or walking.
- Works under constant time deadlines.
- Performs data entry with repetitive hand movement and visual concentration at video display terminal in order to review and enter data.
- Requires manual dexterity using fine hand manipulations.Uses protective equipment as described in the Laboratory Policy and Procedure manual.
- Requires exposure to power tools and heavy equipment.
- Complies with precautions, as defined by Infection Control staff, in patients/materials requiring isolation.
- Consistently uses sharps safety devices as designed to prevent injuries to self.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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