Lab Coordinator

• Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
• Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
• Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports:
• Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Autonomy in a warm team environment
• Growth and training

Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service. 

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan. 

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

As a Lab Coordinator, you will be responsible for conducting phlebotomy procedures and managing the storage of specimens until they are collected by external lab personnel. You will also handle the reception, processing, and filing of all lab test orders, ensuring timely delivery of results to relevant units, while maintaining direct communication with ordering physicians and ARNPs as needed, and strictly adhering to infection control protocols. Additionally, you will perform venipuncture/capillary puncture procedures with precision, conduct bedside test analysis, and collect non-blood specimens under the guidance of your supervisor, contributing to the overall efficiency and accuracy of lab services.

• Perform phlebotomy and collect other fluid samples, ensuring adherence to infection control procedures and maintaining knowledge of proper sample collection and storage techniques, including stat lab work.
• Organize and maintain lab test orders and results, delivering copies to relevant units or clinics, and directly communicate stat results to ordering physicians/ARNPs while informing them of any refusals.
• Monitor the general performance of outside lab services, including turnaround times, add-on test capabilities, and critical lab test reporting, while remaining sensitive to cultural diversity issues and patient age-specific care needs.
• Stay updated on policy and procedural changes, maintain professionalism and excellent customer relations, distribute specimen collection supplies, and document all relevant incidents in patients' medical records.
• Ensure compliance with standard safety policies and procedures mandated by regulatory bodies such as NCCHC, FDA, DHEC, and OSHA, while maintaining patient confidentiality despite constant exposure to disease and contamination.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required.  Requires documented successful completion of a Phlebotomy course.

Experience

• Minimum two (2) years of experience collecting laboratory specimens in a residential health care environment, organization, or equivalent experience.
• Able to collect and process laboratory specimens in a psychiatric hospital setting.
• Knowledge of infection control techniques required.
• Prior experience in a correctional setting preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• Must be certified in phlebotomy and laboratory specimen collection in the state of employment and always maintain a current copy of certifications in the hospital.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume.  Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.