Laboratory Assistant

3 weeks ago


Brooklyn, United States NYU Langone Health Full time

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough. At NYU Langone Health, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace diversity, inclusion, and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. Learn more about NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn_, and interact with us on _LinkedIn_, _Glassdoor_, _Indeed_, _Facebook_, _Twitter_, _YouTube_ and _Instagram_._

**Position Summary**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Laboratory Assistant.

**Responsibilities**:

- Maintains an adequate supply of all general laboratory items as well as department specific reagents and materials needed for specimen analysis. Communicates the need for additional supplies to supervisor/manager when necessary.
- Ensures the proper receipt and storage of laboratory materials. Receives all goods delivered and documents according to NYU policy and guidelines provided by regulatory agencies.
- Understands specimen requirements, communicates to provider and documents when samples are cancelled or rejected.
- Assures specimen quality prior to processing.
- Calls provider to confirm or clarify requests, modifies and places orders as required.
- Responsible for front end processing of all samples preparing them for analysis. Examples include but are not limited to labeling, centrifuging, aliquotting, transport and placing samples on automated test platforms.
- Responsible for back end processing of samples including preparation for storage, tracking and eventual disposal according to policy.
- Properly disposes of all department regulated medical, biological, chemical and clean waste.
- Cleans all laboratory work surfaces and assigned equipment in accordance with laboratory protocols and documents as required.
- Responsible for maintaining logs associated with temperature and humidity for assigned equipment, work areas and eye wash stations.
- Completes add on requests as per policy, including retrieval of addon specimens from within and outside the department
- Responsible for review of routine and stat pending lists and retrieval of missed tests/specimens
- Answering the phone and providing assistance to caller as required (spec requirements, test availability, TAT etc.)
- Access automated test platforms to assess status of test samples
- Responsible for shipping of blood and body fluids to other sites.
- Assist in blood product modification (irradiation, thawing of frozen products).
- Responsible for inventory management of blood products (receiving, stocking, expiration).
- Collect blood by venipuncture or finger puncture on patients as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Minimum Qualifications**:
To qualify you must have a High school diploma with 12 college credits in Chemistry or Biology.
Laboratory experience (But not including Intake/Accessioning), including handling open containers of blood and body fluid
Excellent communication skills.

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

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NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $2.51 - $28.05 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.



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