Courier
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Description
- Must keep a courteous flow of communication with phlebotomist / nurses / customers. .
- Must multi task to include additional duties such as scanning, centrifuging, data entry.
- Makes deliveries to specific departments, facilities, drop-sites, offices, or persons.
- Picks up items from designated facilities, drop-sites, offices, or persons for immediate, next day, or future delivery.
- Refrain from any discussion of patient information outside the Laboratory.
- Knowledge of required specimen preservation and handling including picking up of none blood specimens.
- Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround time, streamline work process, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.
- Suggest changes to supervisor or appropriate staff members to improve customer service and communicates any changes in schedules as well.
- Respond to requests for information, care or service in a timely and polite manner.
- Work with others in respectful, cooperative manner and exhibits warmth, courtesy, and professionalism.
- Represent TridentCare positively in each communication with patients, families, physicians, other employees and contacts outside the Laboratory.
- Adhere to dress code and wear proper identification badge at all times.
- Inform immediate supervisor of request that cannot be handled in a timely manner.
- Inform appropriate staff of any accidents and / or injuries immediately in written form. Cooperate with others in institution-wide programs and projects as assigned through attendance, completion of tasks, and adoption of policies.
- Maintain personal behavior to be consistent with a clean, quiet, respectful environment for customers, patients, facilities, co-workers, and any other contacts.
- Follow work attendance policies; maintains consistent attendance and punctuality
- Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
- Follows established phlebotomy procedures for obtaining blood samples from patients.
- Properly and accurately identify patients according to TridentCare phlebotomy patient identification policy prior to drawing.
- Ensures that specimens are properly labeled, in the proper tube and accompanied by a completed requisition, including patient billing information prior to transport.
- Follows TridentCare phlebotomy policy on transporting PHI.
- Plans, organizes draw schedule with attention to priority of patients.
- Completes written logs, time sheets and other required records in a neat and accurate manner.
- Works cooperatively with dispatch, payroll, laboratory and courier departments.
- Maintains all equipment in good working order and reports problem immediately to Area Phlebotomy Supervisor.
- When on-duty, answers company issued mobile device promptly and is ready and available to work.
- Notifies dispatch of availability for future assignment.
REQUIRED SKILLS :
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Valid driver’s license with a good driving record and ability to drive safely.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for communication with medical and laboratory personnel.
- Previous courier or driving experience.
- Principles and practices of safe motor vehicle operation and maintenance.
- Traffic laws, ordinances, and rules involved in motor vehicle operation.
Qualifications
Skills
Behaviors
Motivations
Education
Experience
Licenses & Certifications
Required
Drivers License
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Specimen Processor/Courier
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Job Details
Description
The main responsibility of the Specimen Processor is to accession the specimen(s) and ascertain that the test(s) ordered have the correct specimen.
The processor will operate an automobile to transport specimens to designated airports. - Rate f pay is determine based on experience, range is $16.40 to 17.50 an hour.
- Responsible for informing a facility, and filling out appropriate paperwork, if a redraw is needed due to :
- PT & PTT that are QNS
- missing or incorrectly spelled name on requisition or specimen
- mislabeled accession number and / or name
- specimen not received Ensures that all patient requisitions are scanned into the Filebound Properly centrifuges all appropriate specimens for correct times to insure adequate serum or plasma for required testing.
Routes reference lab specimens, with a copy of the requisition, to the reference lab desk for inclusion into the TRK Sendout Manifest for the Burbank lab.
Whether a cooler is sent to the airport or a courier must be sent to a local reference lab, Dispatch must be notified for the transfer.
Regularly reviews in-house testing areas for completed specimens so they can electronically store them for any future add-on tests or repeats.
Proper Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times to protect the processor from any infectious material.
Prepares packages and makes deliveries to local airport.Follow work attendance policies; maintains consistent attendance and punctuality
Performs other duties assigned by the supervisor
- Upon specimen arrival, properly marks the location of testing for each ordered test on the accompanying requisition.
- Ensures that the correct specimen is collected for each test ordered, and that the tube types submitted are written in the left margin of the requisition.
- Ensures that the patient’s full name, date / time of collection, and phlebotomist’s
Qualifications
Skills
Behaviors
Motivations
Education
Experience
Licenses & Certifications
Required
Drivers License
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)