Health care
Medical laboratory assistant
$28.00 to $29.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
Pay is above the local median for this work ($27.00 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- 7 months to 1 year's experience
- College/CEGEP
- English
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Hours and terms
- 2 to 20 hours a two weeks
- Shifts: mornings, evenings, shifts, flexible hours
- Part time, Casual employment
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Medical laboratory assistants and related technical workers require completion of a college certificate program in medical laboratory science.
- Certification by the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science is usually required by employers.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations (NOC 33101). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Collect, label, sort and prepare blood, tissue and other samples from patients
- Log and validate patient samples and prepare them for testing
- Set up medical laboratory equipment
- Prepare chemical reagents to be combined with biological samples for testing
- Conduct routine laboratory tests and sample analyses
- Perform quality assurance of testing techniques and record results
About the employer
- Industry: Health care and social assistance
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
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