Job Description
Medical Lab Assistant – Tech 3 – Laboratory – Part Time (4)
Purpose:
To assist Medical Laboratory Technologists by the performance of technical tasks requiring minimal supervision and that do not require the exercise of independent judgment.
Duties:
- Procure blood samples.
- Prepare sample for analysis (e.g. separation numbering – including referral specimens).
- Prepare reagents, media and smears (e.g. blood films).
- Stain smears.
- Coverslip slide preparations.
- Concentrate stool samples for Parasitology examinations.
- Plant and streak microbiology specimens and controls, including set-up of anaerobic and CO2 jars, for reading by a Medical Laboratory Technician.
- Subculture stock cultures in Bacteriology.
- Titration using a pH meter.
- Urinalysis (excluding microscopic).
- Record quality control results for interpretation and approval by qualified staf...