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Houston Methodist

Nonprofit academic medical center with hospitals

Medical Laboratory Assistant 2

Diagnostics & Laboratory ProfessionalsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHouston, TX, USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma or equivalent education is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of related experience is required.
  • Relevant certification, such as phlebotomy or medical laboratory assistant certification, is preferred.
  • Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, as determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and/or performance reviews.
  • Demonstrates a working knowledge of specimen requirements for testing, processing, and proper waste disposal.
  • Possesses basic computer knowledge and operates multiple computer systems, including Hospital/Laboratory Information Systems and Office software, to maintain patient and testing records and related documents.
  • Adapts independently to multiple ongoing priorities, including organizing workflow.
  • Demonstrates independent judgment and discretion to recognize problems, identify causes, and take corrective action.
  • Has strong training, leadership, and mentoring skills.
  • Has sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing English to perform essential job functions, especially those affecting patient or employee safety or security.
  • Can communicate effectively with patients, physicians, family members, and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer-service focus and positive-language principles.

Responsibilities

  • Processes, organizes, labels, and transports specimens for laboratory testing.
  • Performs advanced functions such as phlebotomy and/or section-specific specialty tasks and serves as a role model and preceptor for other staff.
  • Inputs and extracts data from the Laboratory Information System and performs clerical tasks such as answering phones and filing documents.
  • Promotes a positive work environment and contributes to a team-focused work unit, collaborating with the patient care team and communicating and reporting pertinent patient-care information and data.
  • Serves as a preceptor to less experienced and/or new staff and students by helping train and educate them.
  • Prepares specimens for courier pickup and delivery to referral laboratories as necessary, and communicates with laboratory personnel when specimens need transportation to other areas.
  • Performs Laboratory Information System functions, files requisitions, reports, and pathology materials, answers the telephone, and appropriately refers requests for delivery of results to physician offices.
  • Resolves complex problems and issues independently, notifies management of issues and resolutions, and provides escalation support for less experienced staff.
  • Organizes workload, sets priorities, troubleshoots workflow issues, assists others, and performs additional tasks as needed.
  • Receives, triages, orders, labels, and transports specimens for testing; processes specimens, aliquots, slides, and/or blocks according to procedure; handles STAT samples expeditiously; and assists pathologists and/or laboratory personnel with specimen grossing as needed.
  • Recognizes problems such as mislabels or incorrect tube types, identifies causes, and takes corrective action to solve basic problems.
  • Operates automated instrumentation as applicable and performs and documents processing-equipment maintenance while following safety measures.
  • Performs advanced pre-analytic functions, including phlebotomy and other specialized specimen collection procedures for inpatient and outpatient patients, while maintaining competency in techniques and principles required for quality phlebotomy services.
  • Performs advanced specialty-area functions, such as assisting with frozen sections, special stain procedures, cytology processing, fine needle aspirations, and other section-specific tasks within the section's scope.
  • Maintains a safe laboratory environment and follows safety, hazardous-materials, security, and emergency-preparedness policies and procedures.
  • Adjusts work schedule to accommodate departmental or organizational needs and appropriately uses the time-recording system.
  • Uses department resources, equipment, and supplies properly and efficiently.
  • Guides and mentors section employees and students to build confidence in their skills, knowledge, and abilities.
  • Participates in departmental project activities and seeks continuing-education opportunities to expand learning beyond baseline competencies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Relevant certification, such as phlebotomy or medical laboratory assistant certification.

About the Company

Houston Methodist

Nonprofit academic medical center with hospitals

Houston Methodist is a nonprofit academic medical center and hospital system in the Houston area. It delivers fee-for-service care through eight hospitals, focusing on cancer, heart and vascular care, transplantation, neurosciences, orthopedics, and digestive disorders, and treats thousands of international patients. The system combines patient care with research, education, and philanthropy through the Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation, with its flagship at the Texas Medical Center and partnerships with Weill Cornell Medicine, Texas A&M, and Rice University that support programs like EnMed and a broad clinical trials network via the Houston Methodist Research Institute. Its goal is to improve patient outcomes by providing high-quality medical care while expanding research, education, and collaborative clinical programs.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
2008

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