Medical Laboratory Assistant

Overview Monday-Friday 9am-5:30pm, with rotating weekend/holiday on-call. Job Description Summary Provides clerical and patient care support, especially regarding specimen collection and specimen processing. Performs patient registration, specimen accessioning, specimen collection (including venipuncture, capillary, sweat chloride, and miscellaneous other collections), ensuring specimen preparation and processing is completed, and waived laboratory testing. Essential Functions • 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 troubleshoot