Health Technician (Lab Client Services)

About the Position: This position is located at Bassett Army Community Hospital in Fort Wainwright, Alaska. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Federal employees in Alaska are currently entitled to receive a 1.49% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) in addition to the base salary. This is subject to change.

Perform blood collection procedures by venipuncture and capillary puncture techniques.

Serve as a laboratory receptionist in greeting patients, providing them with appropriate guidance, answering non-technical inquiries, and referring technical inquiries to the appropriate laboratory staff.

Process a variety of specific standardized tests in the areas of chemistry, microbiology, and hematology.

Perform accessioning procedures using the Hospital or Laboratory Informatics Systems (HIS or LIS).

Utilize pre-analytic processing procedures to identify and resolve specimen errors in the medical treatment facilities.

Process a wide variety of laboratory specimens collected in the clinic or received from outlying sites for shipment to civilian or military reference laboratories.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.