Administrative Clerk at Pathologists Lancet Laboratories

Job Summary

Administers and provides day to day technical support in the Histology Department so as to meet required service at standard level.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Certificate / Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Office Management and Administration, Front Office Operations, Business Administration or related fields.
• Certificate in Computer Applications from a recognized Institution
• Should be self-motivated
• Should have good interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision

Challenging Demands of the Job

• Unsociable working hours and shifts in some areas;
• Consistency in achieving stringent turnaround and performance targets in an environment that is characterized by high volume ,24/7 hour working days and no tolerance for error
• Keeping abreast with technical knowledge and changes on the job
• Effective leadership within a multi-disciplinary team
• Exposure to bio hazardous substances
• Balancing the needs and demands of staff with management decisions
• Multiskilling
• Risk of high error rate due to speed and accuracy requirements;
• Client liaison (both internal and external) and maintaining a positive image of the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Administers and checks on the cases and bring the slides/issue to the respective Technologist/Pathologist concerned.
• Review daily workload tabulation with allocations, as well as TAT overdue checks.
• Monitor, receive, review and relay all communications to the histology team regarding all queries and information for Attention to the histopathology/cytopathology team with the responsibility of responding to and handling the relevant queries or concerns that is requiring to be resolved by the team.
• Receiving slides from Pathologists’ ones they have been signed out and file them in the filing cabinet.
• Arranging histology blocks according to their order of numbers for easy reference.
• Arrange slides in order of numbers ones they have been signed out by pathologists.
• Ensuring order in the store where the slides are kept.
• Receiving all communications regarding Histology/Cytology
• Retrieving blocks/slides as requested by the pathologist.
• Filling and retrieving of request forms as requested by the HOD.