Position Highlights:

• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.
• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career, flexible scheduling may be available
• Employee-centric: Tuition Assistance and assistance with certification expense, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
• Career Progression: Higher wage earning potential for certified phlebotomists

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What you will do:

• Assists with daily billing activities for pathology.
• Follows proper specimen/patient identification process in the execution of all job duties.
• Perform clerical duties to include short registration, order entry, scanning, and filing orders for patients and specimens. Investigates and resolves order/specimen problems.
• Perform specimen retrieval runs for pathology department. Assist with accessioning pathology cases.
• Perform non-LabCorp specimen send-outs (to include PKUs, Neogenomics, case referrals, etc.)
• Demonstrates competency to assist pathologists/pathologist assistants with Frozen Section slide cutting and staining.
• Process cytology specimens according to policies
• File pathology slides and blocks.
• Assists pathologists/pathologists’ assistant in examining tissue for grossing and frozen section pieces. Assists with fine needle aspiration procedures.
• Dispose of biohazardous materials.
• Record daily maintenance/temperature checks.
• Assures tissue processors are loaded and running daily.
• Responsible for inventory in the gross room and histology, to include putting up supplies, rotating stock, and alerting appropriate team members of the need to order supplies.

What you will need: 

• High school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Must have basic clerical skills, such as typing, filing, medical terminology, computer literate.
• Previous lab experience and/or medical background preferred.
• Ability to lift objects up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Punctual attendance at assigned work location is required.
• Ability to work in a safe and efficient manner and maintain an accident free work place, including ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of emergency codes.
• Ability to comply with OSHA regulations and CDC standard and transmission-based precaution recommendations and to utilize proper personal protective equipment.
• Ability to comply with provisions of applicable S.D.S. forms.
• Successful completion of a 90-day probationary period.