Lab Assistant – Clinical Labs, Float
3 days ago
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Summary
UW Health is seeking a Lab Assistant – Clinical Labs, Float to join their team in Madison, WI. The role involves performing phlebotomy procedures, specimen processing, and clerical duties in a clinical setting.
About the Role
As a Lab Assistant - Float, you will be responsible for performing standardized and specialized phlebotomy procedures on patients of all ages, ensuring proper patient identification and specimen labeling. You will also complete specimen receiving and processing, load them onto instruments or perform kit testing, and handle associated instrument maintenance and clerical duties. Daily interactions will include working with pathologists, physicians, technologists, clinical staff, nursing unit personnel, and patients.
About You
Required:
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Completion of accredited Phlebotomy Training program and clinical rotation.
- 6 months of Phlebotomy and Specimen Processing Experience.
Preferred:
- 1 year of experience in phlebotomy and processing.
- Phlebotomist (American Society for Clinical Pathology) certification or equivalent.
- Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) certification (American Society for Clinical Pathology) or equivalent.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits package including health and dental insurance.
- Paid time off and retirement plans.
- Two-week paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
- Tuition benefits eligibility for professional growth.
UW Health is an integrated academic health system that is home to the No. 1 hospital in Wisconsin (for the 13th year in a row) as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. We’re made up of six main hospitals, one JOA partner hospital in Madison and two hospitals located within the main hospital in Illinois. We also have more than 90 clinics across Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
UW Health cares for more than 800,000 patients each year and employs more than 24,000 people — one of the region’s largest employers. Many of our 1,800 physicians are faculty members at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, one of the nation’s highly regarded medical schools.
Madison, WI