Job Details

The ChristianaCare General Laboratory located on the Newark campus, is currently recruiting for a Casual Laboratory Technician lll. Every other weekend required.

Note: You must be able to attend training Monday-Friday during the day.

Responsibilities:

Performs pre-analytical preparation of specimens including but not limited to centrifuging, aliquoting, refrigerating, and freezing of specimens, slide preparation, and loading of instruments with reagents, consumables, and quality control and patient samples.

Performs limited waived analytical testing including but not limited to routine urinalysis, and occult blood tests.

Performs Send Out functions for laboratory including preparing and packing specimens for transport to WH Hospital and preparing/packaging specimens for shipment to Mayo Reference Laboratory. 

Receives, sorts, and centrifuges laboratory specimens verifying match of requisition and specimen.

Selects correct patient encounter, registers patient, orders laboratory work, prints identification labels, and affixes labels to specimens.

Delivers specimens and specimen coolers to laboratories.

Answers telephone calls from physicians, nurses, and lab personnel giving out laboratory results as needed.

Inventories and stocks supplies.

Requirements:

High school graduate.

Two years applicable clinical (specimen processing, phlebotomy, laboratory) experience or equivalent college courses in the Healthcare field.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.

When you become an employee at ChristianaCare, you are joining a robust healthcare organization that truly cares about their patients and their caregivers. For the second consecutive year, Forbes magazine has ranked ChristianaCare as one of the best large health systems to work for in the United States! Guided by excellence and love, our Caregivers enjoy a multitude of employee benefits that include:

Full Medical, Dental, Vision and other insurance benefits

403 (b) with an employer match

Diverse and Inclusive culture

Generous paid time off with annual roll-over and opportunities to cash out

12 week paid parental leave

About Christiana Care:

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, medical aid units, two hospitals (1,227 beds), a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. We are continually ranked by US News & World Report as a Best Hospital. With our unique, data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

Post End DateApr 3, 2025

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Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.