Junior / Senior Lab Technician

1. General Responsibilities

• Accession and sort specimens, verify labeling, log samples, and reject those not meeting testing criteria while informing the OCC department. Request fresh samples when applicable.

• Serve as a technical resource by participating in staff training.

• Identify and communicate abnormal patient conditions and critical alerts, informing the Pathologist and Patient/Attendant. Obtain clinical history and correlate with sample for abnormal results.

• Assist in the preparation of Test Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

• Enter test results via interfacing and save reports in IT dose for final approval by the Pathologist.

• Maintain patient confidentiality by ensuring laboratory information remains secure.

• Coordinate with service engineers in case of instrument breakdown. • Discard samples as per the sample retention policy.

• Maintain adequate stock levels to ensure uninterrupted testing.

• Ensure test results are processed within the defined Turn-Around-Time (TAT).

• Perform lot-to-lot verification of Quality Controls (QCs) and reagents. • Follow up on outsourced test reports sent by the lab.

• Ensure TAT compliance for outsourced tests, and attach received reports to the IT dose.

2. Biochemistry

• Provide test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating chemistry equipment.

• Maintain instruments as per the scheduled maintenance plan.

• Run proficiency testing samples and maintain calibration records.

• Enter QC summaries into designated files.

• Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.

3. Haematology & Clinical Pathology

• Generate test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating haematology instruments.

• Run EQAS samples for haematology testing.
• Enter QC summaries into designated files.

• Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.

4. Serology

• Perform rapid card tests to provide test results for patient diagnosis. Inform the lab head in case of positive test results and release results following the due procedure.