Lab Assistant

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

What you will do in this role:

• Accepts responsibility for own actions; offers and accepts constructive criticism in a non – defensive manner.
• Adheres to hospital attendance and tardiness policy. Appropriately clocks in/out and returns from break and lunch on time.
• Adheres to schedule and provides coverage in assigned areas. Adaptable to changes in work flow.
• Adjusts break and lunch times to ensure appropriate department coverage for optimal patient care.
• Answers phone by 4th ring. Takes messages and transfers calls appropriately. Strictly follows Personal Telephone/Cell Phone Usage policy (916-010).
• Appropriate use and inventory of reagents and supplies, order supplies when needed.
• Assists in maintaining general cleanliness and safety of work area to ensures that work area is clean and free of safety hazards.
• Assists in phlebotomy/collection. Manages STAT collection in timely manner.
• Correctly and proficiently charts/mails/faxes lab reports to physician mail boxes/offices.
• Correctly collects, processes/sends, documents and files COC drug screen.
• Distributes incoming/outgoing mail.
• Expectations Ethics and Compliance: 1. All employees will be held accountable for behaviors displayed relative to the values articulated in the Mission and Values Statement. “Will act with absolute honest, integrity and fairness in the way we conduct our business and the way we live our lives.”2. All employees will be held accountable for attending training regarding the Code of Conduct program at least annually.
• Follows SOP for checking and reconciling CBN tests and draws. Print/review/reconcile computer reports and work sheets as assigned.
• Has no unapproved overtime.
• Maintains competency in designated work areas. Performs appropriate volume of workload within specific time frames. Completes work from previous shifts and assists others as available or needed.

What qualifications you will need:

• No Travel Required
• 2 years experience Required Years of Experience
• Medical terminology is desirable

HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, a campus of HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, is a 165+ bed, general acute care hospital
, founded in 2006 by local physicians who wanted to create a…