What are the responsibilities and job description for the Central Lab Support Staff position at PALMETTO PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS L?
Palmetto Primary Care Physicians (PPCP) is the largest independent multi-specialty group practice in South Carolina and has proudly served patients and our communities since 1996. The group is comprised of over 100 clinical providers with a wide range of expertise in primary and specialty care including endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, psychiatry, audiology, and physical therapy. PPCP offers a wide range of services, including a state-of-the-art urgent care clinic, imaging, diagnostics, and labs. The company employs over 500 clinical and non-clinical staff throughout South Carolina and provides exceptional medical care for patients in over 40 offices.
To learn more about PPCP, visit www.PalmettoPrimaryCare.com
- Offer 401K with generous company match
- Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
- Short Term and Long Term Disability Offered
Job Functions:
- Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as prioritizing work as necessary.
- Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the System (organizing, and housekeeping, assisting others).
- Organize job functions and work area to be able to effectively complete varied assignments within established time frames.
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
- Perform routine and specialized assignments and demonstrate proficiency and understanding of the procedures in the areas of a clinical laboratory under the direction of the laboratory leadership.
- Responsible for all functions required by the outside laboratories and assures proper collection of information for billing purposes when necessary.
- Organizes work by matching computer orders with specimen labeling; sorting specimens; checking labeling; logging specimens; arranging reports for delivery; keeping work surfaces clean and orderly.
- Maintain appropriate records for specimen problems or rejection.
- Review or correct patient orders ensuring that appropriate tests, location of testing, and adequate sample type and integrity are used.
- LIS audits, maintaining laboratory events logs, outside order audits, scanning, faxing pathology reports and various laboratory results in a timely manner.
- Works closely with the Medical Lab Tech clinical staff and will be required to perform some of their duties when necessary; must maintain current certification to do so.
- Quality assurance liaison for reference laboratories and hospitals -branch support daily, specimen issues, insurance/ patient information, tracking patient results.
- Provides supplies to outside laboratories.
- Collects swab for COVID-19 and other respiratory pathogens.
- Performs point-of-care testing such as COVID, influenzas, and strep.
- Other duties as assigned