Lab Associate III - Edwardsville IL

Additional Information About the Role

Lab Associate III - Edwardsville, IL

Looking for a hands-on lab role with a great schedule? Join our team in Edwardsville as a Lab Associate III!

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Schedule:

Monday-Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM

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No weekends, no holidays!

In this role, you will:

• Process and prepare a variety of specimens for testing and send-out services
• Report results under supervision and ensure accurate specimen handling
• Prioritize STAT and routine work while maintaining turnaround times
• Assist with inventory management, equipment maintenance, and quality operations

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• 2-5 years of laboratory or healthcare experience required
• Associate's Degree and BLS certification preferred
• Join a team that values accuracy, collaboration, and exceptional patient care while enjoying a consistent weekday schedule! 🧪💙
• Overview
• Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
• Memorial Hospital Shiloh
• , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.
• The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients.  Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• Performs a variety of pre analytic, analytic and post analytic laboratory duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Performs waived and moderate complex testing with appropriate training and competency, sweat chloride collections, EKG's, etc.
• Under supervision, reports test results as appropriate.
• Sorts and processes routine and specific high level specimens received by the lab--including multistep technical processing (i.e. Histology, Microbiology, Cytology, etc.). Ensures correct processing and packaging for esoteric send out tests.
• Coordinates a simultaneous series of tasks accurately, including STAT orders and fluctuation in workload, prioritizing work to complete within scheduled hours and established turnaround times.
• Inventory management, equipment cleaning, maintenance, loading, etc.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• High School Diploma or GED
• Experience
• 2-5 years
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Preferred Requirements
• Education
• Associate's Degree
• Licenses & Certifications
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Phlebotomy

Responsibilities

• Memorial Hospital Belleville is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
• Memorial Hospital Shiloh
• , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.
• The Laboratory Department provides a wide variety of assays and procedures to obtain data used in the diagnosis and treatment of most disease states to our inpatient and out patients.  Services include phlebotomy, hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, point-of-care and pathology.

Qualifications

• Role Purpose
• Performs a variety of pre analytic, analytic and post analytic laboratory duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Performs waived and moderate complex testing with appropriate training and competency, sweat chloride collections, EKG's, etc.
• Under supervision, reports test results as appropriate.
• Sorts and processes routine and specific high level specimens received by the lab--including multistep technical processing (i.e. Histology, Microbiology, Cytology, etc.). Ensures correct processing and packaging for esoteric send out tests.
• Coordinates a simultaneous series of tasks accurately, including STAT orders and fluctuation in workload, prioritizing work to complete within scheduled hours and established turnaround times.
• Inventory management, equipment cleaning, maintenance, loading, etc.
• Minimum Requirements
• Education
• High School Diploma or GED
• Experience
• 2-5 years
• Supervisor Experience
• No Experience
• Preferred Requirements
• Education
• Associate's Degree
• Licenses & Certifications
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Phlebotomy