Lab Technologist at Fountain Healthcare

General Purpose of the role: The Laboratory Technologist’s major role is to collect patient’s body fluids and tissues and other specimens for lab tests and analysis.

He/she is also responsible in providing excellent customer service to the clients.

Key Responsibilities of the role

General Purpose of the role: The Laboratory Technologist’s major role is to collect patient’s body fluids and tissues and other specimens for lab tests and analysis.

He/she is also responsible in providing excellent customer service to the clients.

Key Responsibilities of the role

• Helps patients by greeting them in person and by phone; Answering questions and requests.
• Maintains laboratory inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; Anticipating needed stocks and supplies; Placing and expediting orders; Verifying receipt; Preparing ageing reports as often as possible.
• Maintains a safe and clean environment by complying with company standard operating procedures & government regulation. He/she cleans the floors and damp dust the shelves.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Maintains records by recording and filing physicians’ orders and lab requests.
• Generates revenues by calculating, recording, and issuing charges.
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information and sending them on time as required in the standard operating procedures.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Conducting marketing activities together with the branch team and ensuring individual and branch sales targets are met or exceeded.
• Take responsibility of his/her lab by ensuring that all operations of the lab are running smoothly and reporting any anomalies and breakages.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are followed to the letter and timely feedback given
• Keep the laboratory and all equipment clean
• Prepare the laboratory equipment and specimens for tests
• Perform blood counts and blood tests for transfusion purposes
• Work with medical laboratory technologists/scientists/pathologists in more complex laboratory tests and procedures.
• Keep records and files for all tests and procedures done and indicate the payments.
• Generate daily cash analysis and this should reconcile with actual money collected on a daily basis
• Every month prepare budget and place local purchase orders for supplies through Hospital Administrator, Executive Division Director and Finance Director and maintain adequate stock levels.
• Keep inventory of all lab equipment, draw a maintenance and calibration schedule and report immediately any equipment malfunction that needs repair.
• Keep quality control as per required regulations of laboratory services at County and National Regulatory bodies.
• Any other duty assigned by the Line manager or senior management staff.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory
• Duly registered by Kenya Medical Laboratory technicians and technologist board
• 1-year experience in a busy hospital setting.

Code of conduct required at FHC

• Employees must always be clean, smart and well-groomed in uniform and name tag when on duty.
• Employees must be ready and willing to provide exemplary customer service in accordance to company brand and policies.
• Employees must adhere to the working hours as per shifts allocated; any absence from work must be reported in good time.
• Employees must keep the clients’ information confidential.
• Employees must adhere to the organization’s reporting structure.
• Must be a person with a high level of integrity.
• Must not have a prior criminal record
• Helps patients by greeting them in person and by phone; Answering questions and requests.
• Maintains laboratory inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; Anticipating needed stocks and supplies; Placing and expediting orders; Verifying receipt;
• Preparing ageing reports as often as possible.
• Maintains a safe and clean environment by complying with company standard operating procedures & government regulation. He/she cleans the floors and damp dust the shelves.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Maintains records by recording and filing physicians’ orders and lab requests.
• Generates revenues by calculating, recording, and issuing charges.
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information and sending them on time as required in the standard operating procedures.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Conducting marketing activities together with the branch team and ensuring individual and branch sales targets are met or exceeded.
• Take responsibility of his/her lab by ensuring that all operations of the lab are running smoothly and reporting any anomalies and breakages.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are followed to the letter and timely feedback given
• Keep the laboratory and all equipment clean
• Prepare the laboratory equipment and specimens for tests
• Perform blood counts and blood tests for transfusion purposes
• Work with medical laboratory technologists/scientists/pathologists in more complex laboratory tests and procedures.
• Keep records and files for all tests and procedures done and indicate the payments.
• Generate daily cash analysis and this should reconcile with actual money collected on a daily basis
• Every month prepare budget and place local purchase orders for supplies through Hospital Administrator, Executive Division Director and Finance Director and maintain adequate stock levels.
• Keep inventory of all lab equipment, draw a maintenance and calibration schedule and report immediately any equipment malfunction that needs repair.
• Keep quality control as per required regulations of laboratory services at County and National Regulatory bodies.
• Any other duty assigned by the Line manager or senior management staff.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Medical Laboratory
• Duly registered by Kenya Medical Laboratory technicians and technologist board
• 1-year experience in a busy hospital setting.

Code of conduct required at FHC

• Employees must always be clean, smart and well-groomed in uniform and name tag when on duty.
• Employees must be ready and willing to provide exemplary customer service in accordance to company brand and policies.
• Employees must adhere to the working hours as per shifts allocated; any absence from work must be reported in good time.
• Employees must keep the clients’ information confidential.
• Employees must adhere to the organization’s reporting structure.
• Must be a person with a high level of integrity.
• Must not have a prior criminal record