This is a PRN position. YOU have the flexibility and control over your schedule to pickup shifts (as you are able). We do offer Shift Differentials, enabling you to make more per hour by working with us as in this PRN position. *Get paid daily doing the work you love in a way that fits your life.  At SSM Health St. Anthony, we believe you deserve the flexibility to work a schedule that fits your life and to get paid when you need it. That's why we're now offering a same day pay option!

This role is ideal for an experienced LST to pick up extra hours/shifts. We do prefer prior work history and experience in the field.

At SSM Health, you can expect a work environment where: 

• Employees feel valued, respected and free to express themselves; 

• Each employee finds meaning in work, leveraging skills and talents toward a greater purpose; 

• Teamwork and collaboration is encouraged, while management is supportive. 

If you are interested in  in making an exciting career for yourself in a position of value and importance in our organization's operations, please apply today!

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs the loading and unloading of lab specimens from automated and non-automated instrumentation, as well as perform various waived testing.
• Assists in problem requisitions/specimens.
• May orient new hires.
• Assists customers including answering phones and responding to customer inquiries.
• Collects, labels, processes and preserves blood, urine and other specimens according to established laboratory procedures.
• Enters, accesses and executes lab orders in the appropriate laboratory and electronic medical record system.
• Cleans and maintains laboratory supplies and work area.
• May update statistical records, labels tubes, and schedules processing runs.
• May perform moderate complexity testing.
• May perform phlebotomy and/or waived testing.
• Identifies patients using two identifiers.
• Performs a variety of administrative and clerical duties including admission activities, insurance verification, order entry processing and medical record processing.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High School diploma or equivalent or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• One year experience in a laboratory setting

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.