Clinical Laboratory Assistant
UT Health San Antonio
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- Location
- San Antonio, TX
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Nov 6
- 2 days ago
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About the company
UT Health San Antonio
Higher education · 2 to 10 employees
What you'll do
- Receive clinical specimens and check requisitions and specimens for accuracy
- Accession specimens and enter orders into the laboratory information system
- Distribute worksheets to the medical technologists
- Ensure results are successfully reported to clients
- Follow procedures for specimen handling, processing, test analyses, reporting and records
- Document quality control activities, calibrations and maintenance
- Identify problems affecting test performance or reporting and correct or notify a supervisor
- Order and maintain supplies and consumables inventory
What you need
- Knowledgeable in the handling of patient specimens from accession to storage.
- Read and follow technical procedures for the Standard Operating Procedure Manual.
- Assist in the administration of all QA.
- Assist in the inventory management and ordering.
- Sample data collecting or accession if necessary.
- Compliance with all Federal and State regulations.
- Good hand-eye coordination, written and verbal communication.
- Strong computer, scientific and organizational skills, strong sense of personal accountability and responsibility.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.
- High School diploma or GED equivalent is required.
- Two (2) years of related experience is required.
- Education: a high school diploma
Key skills
Handling of patient specimensGood hand-eye coordinationWritten and verbal communicationScientific skillsOrganizational skillsPersonal accountabilityWork independentlySelf-motivationAdaptability
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Responsible for receiving clinical specimens, checking the requisitions and specimens for accuracy, accessioning the specimens, entering the orders into our laboratory information system, distributing worksheets to the medical technologists, and ensuring results are successfully reported to clients as part of our clinical services.
Knowledgeable in the handling of patient specimens from accession to storage.
Read and follow technical procedures for the Standard Operating Procedure Manual.
Assist in the administration of all QA.
Assist in the inventory management and ordering.
Sample data collecting or accession if necessary.
Compliance with all Federal and State regulations.
Good hand-eye coordination, written and verbal communication.
Strong computer, scientific and organizational skills, strong sense of personal accountability and responsibility.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.
Education:
High School diploma or GED equivalent is required.
Experience:
Two (2) years of related experience is required.
Assist with the day-to-day processes in the Pathology Department/Clinical Laboratory.
Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of test examinations.
Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency-testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and either must correct the problems or immediately notify the supervisor, manager or director.
Ordering and maintaining supplies and consumables inventory
Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratories established performance specifications.