Job Summary Details:

Under the direct supervision of the Laboratory Supervisor, the Clinical Lab Assistant (CLA) ensures timely workflow, maintains proper documentation, follows safety and compliance protocols and provides widespread support across laboratory departments.

Job Responsibilities / Essential Functions

• Specimen Processing:
  • Performs patient registration and test ordering, verifies patient information, ensures timely specimen handling, and resolves processing issues to maintain accuracy and efficient workflow.
  • Evaluates and prepares specimens for testing, ensuring proper labeling, distribution, storage, and processing according to established guidelines.
• Equipment:
  • Assists technical Team Members by performing duties assigned in loading of samples, performing maintenance.
  • Operates laboratory equipment according to procedures, troubleshoots issues or contacts support, documents temperatures, and maintains a clean, organized workspace as required.
• Inventory Management: Monitors and manages supply inventory, checks expiration dates, stores received items and keeps the storage areas clean and organized.
• System Utilization: Demonstrates proficiency in the use of HIS and LIS software applications for job-related functions.
• Training and Education: Assists with training of new team members or students as required. Completes mandatory continuing education.
• Safety: Follows PPE protocols and ensures a clean, safe workspace.
• Document Control: Follows all approved standard operating policies and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education and/or Experience Requirements

• Education: Minimum High School Diploma or GED Equivalent
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience in a clinical laboratory or equivalent, with demonstrated proficiency in patient registration, specimen handling, medical terminology, and laboratory information systems preferred.

Other Desired Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge

• Detail-oriented: Maintains accuracy in daily tasks.
• Organized: Manages workload efficiently.
• Effective communicator: Communicates clearly with patients and team members.
• Critical thinker: Uses sound judgment to assess situations and make decisions.
• Collaborative: Builds positive working relationships and contributes to a supportive team environment.
• Adaptable: Responds well to changing priorities and situations.

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation.

Morristown Medical Center

Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.

We are the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America's '50 Best Hospitals' for six consecutive years by Healthgrades and one of the World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek.