Responsibilities

Grand View Health has a state-of-the-art, six-story pavilion with helipad and trauma bays. GVH is a Level II Trauma Center in collaboration with Penn Medicine. Are you looking for a community hospital offering versatility and life-saving work in the medical lab? Come join our Laboratory team and be a part of the best patient care in our region.

The Clinical Laboratory Support Clerk processes patient reports in order to provide timely distribution of information to clinicians. The Clinical Laboratory Support Clerk also performs the registration, test ordering and accessioning functions in an efficient and timely manner so as to maximize laboratory output. The Clinical Laboratory Support Clerk may also assist in Cytology, Histology, Blood Bank and the accession area of the lab. The successul candidate must be organized and have strong communication skills.

Essential Functions:

• Performs the registration, test ordering and accessioning functions in an efficient and timely manner so as to maximize laboratory output.
• Utilizes appropriate verbal communications skills when conversing with patients and other persons, both on the phone and in person, to convey a high level of personal attention and promote customer satisfaction.
• Processes laboratory patient reports daily to provide timely distribution of patient information to clinicians.
• Organizes, maintains and updates departmental files and records in an accurate manner to provide for timely and efficient retrieval of information.
• Provides general clerical support for the Laboratory staff as needed.
• Assists Pathologist with frozen section procedure, including staining and cover-slipping. Cleans and preps gross room; handles specimens for gross analysis.
• Assists in Histology area, numbering, registering, labeling and accessioning specimens; filing slides; charging special stains; making reagents when required; changing tissue processor, as needed; picking up OR/MSSU specimens; gathering statistics; typing procedures; pulling slides and blocks for pathologists, etc.
• Assists in Cytology area, registering and accessioning label specimens, stain and cover-slip slides; looking up histories; changing reagents daily; emptying/washing/filling racks weekly; setting up needle biopsy cart for pathologists, etc.
• Assists Blood Bank area with manual charges, invoice accuracy, single-donor platelet statistics, etc.
• Performs all aspects in the accession room area of the lab, spinning and processing specimens for analytical and reference testing, cleaning and prepping accession room for day shift check list, and assuming responsibility for training of staff in accession room.