Medical Lab Assistant

Overview

Join our team as a weekend shift, PRN, Medical Laboratory Assistant in Tyler, TX.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here:

People First, Always. Here's how we take care of our people:

• Competitive salaries, support teams and growth opportunities.

Your team is bigger than your department:

• UT Health Tyler, the flagship hospital of the system, has 502 licensed beds specializing in advanced acute care medicine. Our hospital includes a 24-hour ER with Level 1 trauma center, a comprehensive stroke center, more than 500 physicians and a full complement of subspecialty groups.

• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect.

Responsibilities

• Promotes professionalism and interacts with colleagues in a way that promotes a cooperative working environment.

• Ensure specimens are obtained in accordance with laboratory guidelines.

• Demonstrate proper communication skills to relate pertinent data or information about the patient or laboratory sample to appropriate care provider.

• Supports organizational priorities to maintain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

• Attains required competency and demonstrates the ability to follow procedural directions and protocols.

• Able to prioritize and organize workload and assist other coworkers to maintain productivity.

• Follows proper protocols for specimen packaging and specimen transport.

• Responsible for patient registration, lab test ordering, specimen receipt, accessioning, processing and specimen distribution according to protocol.

• Demonstrates proper infection control practices, proper patient identification, performs proper prompt specimen transport.

• Performs proper drug screen collection and processing, as assigned

• Answers laboratory department phone calls.

• Monitors phlebotomy draw list and assigns/dispatches phlebotomists to draw specimens as assigned.

• Courier duties as assigned.

• Demonstrates ability to recognize emergent conditions and reacts appropriately.

• Provides phlebotomy services in a professional and patient centered manner as assigned.

• Engages in self-evaluation of practice and takes action to improve knowledge and skills.

• Retains accountability for quality of care given to the patient.

• Promotes service excellence and growth of the laboratory.

• May work with multiple departments within the laboratory or across the hospital/health system.

• Performs laboratory tests in compliance with policies and procedures as assigned.

• Assists in preparing laboratory equipment for testing.

• Assists other laboratory personnel with laboratory related processes as assigned.

• Responsible for other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent

Preferred Job Requirements

• Certification from nationally recognized agency as a phlebotomist upon hire

• Certification from a nationally recognized agency as a medical lab assistant within 2 years of hire date

• Experience working in the clinical setting