Laboratory Technician Assistant

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations - Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York - plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care. Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates,

Summary :

Assists technical staff in preparing specimens and equipment for patient testing. Maintains proper inventory of reagents and control materials. Performs clerical functions associated with accessioning, result reporting, referred testing and customer service.

Responsibilities :

1. Ensures specimen integrity while performing specimen accessioning / ordering in the LIS and using established handling, labeling and processing procedures.

2. Assists with culture plating, loading of urinalysis and blood culture analyzers.

3. Performs and reports waived testing samples.

4. Prepares control material, performs preventive maintenance (i.e. thermometer calibration etc.), completes maintenance logs and performs instrument quality control, oversees refrigerator and freezer temperature recording, etc.

5. Answers phones and insures customer satisfaction.

6. Maintains reagent inventory, labels and stores reagents appropriately, dating when received, opened and when expires and stores appropriately.

7. Files specimens, slides and reports for easy retrieval and discards specimen at proper intervals. Assists with completing requisitions to accompany referred specimens.

8. Restocks supplies in work area as needed.

9. Maintains inventory and submits order forms to supervisor or designee.

10. Prints / files certificates of quality for reagents, media, products.

11. Communicates well with other staff members to ensure excellent customer service and appropriate follow-up.

12. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

13. Performs other duties as assigned.

Other information :

This position requires a minimum formal education of High School Diploma and minimum of three years job-related experience. Customer service and organizational skills.

Criteria Desired (Not Required) : AS degree preferred.

Location : Danbury-24 Hospital Ave

Work Type : Full-Time

Standard Hours : 40.00

FTE : 1.000000

Work Schedule : Day / Eve 8

Work Shift : 8 hour shifts starting between 6am-4 : 30pm variable

Org Unit : 128

Department : Microbiology

Exempt : No

Grade : U4

Salary Range :

$17.0667 - $32.4693 Hourly

Working conditions : Essential :

• Some manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity
• Some occupational risk
• Some exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.
• Medium to Heavy effort. May exert up to 35 lbs. force

EOE, including disability / vets.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.