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Duties are multi-varied and include a variety of invasive/sterile procedures. Responsibilities include but are not limits to: ensuring the validity and integrity of clinical specimens, ensuring doctors’ orders are executed correctly, special specimen handling for esoteric testing, handling and processing of legal specimens, lab report generation and distribution, etc. Very fast paced environment with frequent subjection to a variety of bio-hazards. Employee performs clinical duties in accordance with population specific guidelines and adheres to National Patient Safety Goals as outlined in policy and procedures.\nMinimum Job Qualifications\nLicensure or other certifications:\n\nEducational Requirements: High School Diploma or GED\n\nMinimum Experience:\n\nOther:\n\nPreferred Job Qualifications\nPreferred Licensure or other certifications:\n\nPreferred Educational Requirements:\n\nPreferred Experience: Three (3) years of continuous employment as a lab assistant. 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Deals effectively with outside clients to resolve issues, assist with order clarification, or answer questions they present.\n\nPerforms effectively and efficiently in complex emergency situations such as multiple trauma or disaster and stroke alerts.\n\nInsures the integrity of all submitted clinical specimens.\n\nProcesses surgically obtained, irreplaceable samples, body fluids, CSF, 24 hour urine samples, Cord bloods, PKU’s and courtesy/research samples.\n\nReceives and routes orders to registration or client bill areas, logs in, labels and dispenses samples to correct departments within lab.\n\nResponsible for completing investigational type studies on and maintaining detailed records for outside locations as well as proper documentation of errors internally as well as externally. Works closely with Customer Service to resolve issues and improve lab processes.\n\nGood communication with all lab departments, nursing, radiology, surgery, OR, ER, endoscopy, and all outside ordering locations.\n\nResponsible for storing any extra samples for proper length of time in lab and also for storing research samples for oncology areas of hospital.\n\nResponsible for maintaining QA records, temperature logs of department.\n\nResponsible for proper accountability for every send out sample to ensure proper routing to outside reference labs. Maintains 10+ different reference lab locations for outside testing. (Would include resolving a pending log).\n\nAssist in clarifying Doctor orders with floor patient care techs, nursing, front desk personnel, outpatient draw areas including in NPT, any outside location or anyone ordering or requesting a test.\n\nHandles batching out of samples to reference labs, packaging and shipping to different locations as indicated information, insures correct billing, routes supplies, etc.\n\nResponsible for receiving and distributing all outside pathology/cytology samples as well as all after regular hour samples entering the lab.\n\nResponsible for any sample labeling error documentation using Variance Report for un-labeled, mis-labeled and any situation that is against the standard operating procedure for lab samples.\n\nResponsible for manual send outs to various reference labs where computer generated transmission is not available currently.\n\nResponsible for special billing type testing where reference lab handles billing. Specimen processing must send correct information to reference lab. Requires several steps in locating patient insurance information, diagnosis codes, physicians NPI numbers and routes to proper area of reference lab.\n\nAttends at least 80 % of all continuing education programs as established by the Laboratory Manager per month.\n\nOperates a centrifuge properly. Understands and applies proper techniques according to specimen requirements.\n\nTrains new employees in proper Specimen Processing duties as indicated.\n\nPerforms specialized, in depth investigation of new test(s). Checks pricing, turn around times, testing methods and is helpful in evaluating where to route odd or non-routine testing for patients or Clients.\n\nWorks closely with LAB IT, Pathology/Cytology, and all lab departments to investigate process improvements, then providing ideas and implementing when needed.\n\nTask assignment/position seating for department staff weekly rotation on different shifts.\n\nAct as “In charge” occasionally when Supervisor is absent.\n\nPerforms specialized, in depth investigation of new test(s). Checks pricing, turn around times, testing methods and is helpful in evaluating where to route odd or non-routine testing for patients or clients.\n\nWorks closely with LAB IT, Pathology/Cytology, and all lab departments to investigate process improvements, then providing ideas and implementing when needed.\n\nTask assignment/position seating for department staff weekly rotation on different shifts.\n\nResponsible for interface resulting where available; as well as manually resulting test results where interface is not available.\n\nResponsible for troubleshooting billing kick-off issues closely with management and works to improve processes with this area of lab.\n\nAble to communicate effectively as requested by upper laboratory management.\n\nPhysical Demands\nWeight Lifted: Up to 20 lbs, Occasionally 0-30%of time\n\nWeight Carried: Up to 20 lbs, Occasionally 0-30%of time\n\nVision: Heavy, Frequently 31-65%\n\nKneeling/Stooping/Bending: Occasionally 0-30%\n\nStanding/Walking: Frequently 31-65%\n\nPushing/Pulling: Occasionally 0-30%\n\nIntensity of Work: Frequently 31-65%\n\nJob Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding\n\nWorking at NGHS means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals.\n NGHS: Opportunities start here.\nNortheast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7079,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hospitals & Health Systems"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T13:07:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":51,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.674,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:7","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T16:45:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21347,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2449367},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2449367"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnghs-specimen-processor-prn-various-shifts"}]}