Laboratory Assistant III

🔬 Now Hiring: Laboratory Assistant III – ORMC Core Laboratory 📍 Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) | Orlando, FL Are you an experienced laboratory professional who thrives in a fast-paced healthcare environment? Join the ORMC Core Laboratory team and play a key role in supporting patient care, specimen processing, and laboratory operations while helping ensure exceptional service and quality outcomes. 💙🏥 🧪 About the Role As a Laboratory Assistant III, you will serve as a vital resource within the laboratory, providing advanced specimen processing support, coordinating workflow, assisting customers and clinical staff, and helping maintain efficient laboratory operations. 🔑 Key Responsibilities ✅ Receive, process, label, centrifuge, and distribute specimens for testing ✅ Register patients and enter laboratory orders into hospital information systems ✅ Demonstrate expertise in specimen collection, handling, and processing requirements ✅ Research and resolve customer requests and issues ✅ Ensure follow-up and communication regarding patient care concerns ✅ Support billing, reference testing, scheduling, and laboratory operations ✅ Direct workflow and assist team members in meeting departmental expectations ✅ Train and support laboratory staff as needed ✅ Serve as a liaison between the laboratory, physicians, nursing teams, clients, and vendors ✅ Order and maintain laboratory supplies ✅ Process pathology specimens and coordinate courier pickups ✅ Document specimen quality concerns and participate in quality improvement efforts ✅ Maintain a safe, clean, and organized work environment ✅ Assist with report distribution and departmental communications 🌟 Additional Opportunities 🩸 May perform phlebotomy upon completion of approved competencies 💉 May perform IV starts with approved training and competency validation 📈 Participate in laboratory quality improvement initiatives 🤝 Help maximize departmental productivity and customer satisfaction 🎯 Qualifications 📚 Education High School Diploma or GED required 💼 Experience Three (3) years of laboratory, patient care, or patient business experience required 📜 Licensure/Certification None required 💙 Why Orlando Health? 🏥 Work for one of Central Florida's leading healthcare systems 📈 Grow your career in a high-volume, state-of-the-art laboratory environment 🤝 Collaborate with dedicated healthcare professionals 🎓 Opportunities for learning, development, and advancement 🌟 Make a direct impact on patient care every day If you're passionate about laboratory operations, customer service, teamwork, and supporting exceptional patient outcomes, we'd love to hear from you! 🔬 Apply today and take the next step in your laboratory career with Orlando Health! #OrlandoHealthCareers #LaboratoryAssistant #CoreLab #LaboratoryJobs #HealthcareCareers #MedicalLaboratory #NowHiring #ORMC #TeamOrlandoHealth 🧪💙🩸