Specimen Accessioner

SUMMARY

Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and facilitate production.

Full‑time, Wake Forest, NC, US

• Tracking, sorting, and receiving specimens in the department.
• Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA and safety guidelines.
• Perform laboratory tasks of accessioning samples, record keeping for specimen and specimen exceptions, scanning documentation, specimen storage, and specimen retrieval.
• Use inventory software for supply counts, receiving, stocking, and organizing inventory.
• Prepare specimens at workstations for testing.
• Decontaminate work areas while keeping and maintaining all toxicology sections cleaned and organized.
• Use the laboratory computer system and operate PCs.
• Follow all PPE requirements and all safety regulations.
• Able to handle human specimens such as oral and urine samples for processing.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned by the supervisor. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, but rather a general description of the work performed by this position.

• Decision‑Making
• Critical Thinking
• Communication Skills
• Business Negotiation
• Conflict Management

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of how specimen processing impacts the testing laboratory.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced work environment with deadlines, time constraints, and to communicate effectively.
• Strong team player, works well with staff and peers.
• Ability to reason through situations and make sound decisions.

This is a full‑time position, Monday‑Friday. Additional evening and weekend hours may be required from time to time to accommodate training or business needs.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. Acts in the best interest of the organization.
• Collaboration — Working effectively and cooperatively with others; establishing and maintaining good working relationships which encourage the free exchange of ideas.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain, or to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and objectives required of employees assigned to this job.