When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Join Anna Jaques Hospital (AJH), a distinguished not-for-profit community hospital nestled in the picturesque coastal community of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Since 1884, AJH has been a cornerstone of healthcare excellence in the Merrimack Valley, North Shore, and Southern New Hampshire regions, renowned for our commitment to high-quality care and exceptional patient satisfaction. Located just 35 miles northeast of Boston, AJH offers the perfect blend of a supportive community hospital environment and the vast opportunities that come with being part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, one of the largest healthcare systems in the region. As a member of our team, you'll be part of a network of over 39,000 caregivers and staff dedicated to providing extraordinary care to more than 1.7 million people from 150+ cities and towns across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Discover a rewarding career at AJH, where you can make a meaningful impact within a close-knit community while advancing your professional growth within a thriving healthcare system.

Are you ready to become a part of our dynamic team where you can grow and advance, all while making a difference in patient’s lives?

Job Responsibilities

Pre-analytical Specimen Processing

• Demonstrates proficiency in determining specimen requirements blood collections for all age groups, order entry, order query, specimen accessioning, and specimen distributions.
• Sorts all samples to allow for fast retrieval.
• Proficient in collecting blood successfully on difficult patients
• Utilizes two forms of patient identification.
• Evaluates and processes all lab specimens according to specimen acceptability policy.

Analytic testing

• Accurately performs laboratory analyses on patient specimens.
• Verifies completed work only after careful review of order priority, completeness, absurd results, critical values and special requests.

Quality Control

• Performs quality control testing as required for each analyte.
• Ensures that results pass quality control criteria before verifying results.
• Participates in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
• Brings forward quality concerns and issues in a timely manner following the proper chain of command

Instrument Maintenance

• Skillfully performs required instrumentation maintenance so that analyzers will perform optimally over a longer period of time.
• Documents all entries.
• Documents all problems and report them to supervisor.

STAT Testing Turnaround Times

• Recognizes STAT testing priorities.
• Turnaround times shall not exceed established limits defined in the Laboratory STAT Testing Policy.

Accuracy of Results

• Reviews results for critical values, delta variances, unusual or absurd results, and result completeness prior to certification and release of information.
• Always telephones critical results to clinician.
• Obtains read back and documents

LIS Proficiency

• Maximally utilizes the features of the LIS system to enable productive and efficient use of time.
• Report problems encountered to Information Services Department to allow for times resolution.

Proficiency Testing

• Participates successfully in proficiency testing challenges.
• Reads survey summary reports to gain knowledge in particular specialty.

Work Initiative

• Shows initiative to aid staff and/or supervisors who have heavier workload, or seeks additional tasks outside of primary area.
• Demonstrate initiative to continue to learn and develop new skills in medical technology by reading the latest literature, attending lab meetings and in-services, attending outside seminars, and assisting with procedure development and validations.

Safety

• Staff member shall consistently adhere to all applicable safety practices including Standard Precautions, as defined in the Safety Manual and the Infection Control Manual. It is employee's responsibility to successfully complete all mandatory safety in-services prior to each performance appraisal.
• Staff member is observed adhering to proper use of gloves and lab coats to help ensure personal safety.
• Properly disposes of hazardous and non-hazardous materials into proper containers.

Leadership

• Demonstrates a high level of professionalism at all times.
• Demonstrates teamwork along with excellent communication and customer service skills.

Minimum Education

• Completion of MT or MLT program with a Bachelor's or Associate's degree.

Required Licenses

• ASCP certification or registry eligible required.

Per Diem hours 3pm-11pm. Every third weekend rotation and rotating holidays.

Pay Range:

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.  Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled