Lab Technician

1. General Responsibilities

• Accession and sort specimens, verify labeling, log samples, and reject those not meeting testing criteria while informing the OCC department. Request fresh samples when applicable.

• Serve as a technical resource by participating in staff training.

• Identify and communicate abnormal patient conditions and critical alerts, informing the Pathologist and Patient/Attendant. Obtain clinical history and correlate with sample for abnormal results.

• Assist in the preparation of Test Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

• Enter test results via interfacing and save reports in IT dose for final approval by the Pathologist.

• Maintain patient confidentiality by ensuring laboratory information remains secure.

• Coordinate with service engineers in case of instrument breakdown.

• Discard samples as per the sample retention policy.

• Maintain adequate stock levels to ensure uninterrupted testing.

• Ensure test results are processed within the defined Turn-Around-Time (TAT).

• Perform lot-to-lot verification of Quality Controls (QCs) and reagents.

• Follow up on outsourced test reports sent by the lab.

• Ensure TAT compliance for outsourced tests, and attach received reports to the IT dose.

2. Biochemistry

• Provide test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating chemistry equipment.

• Maintain instruments as per the scheduled maintenance plan.

• Run proficiency testing samples and maintain calibration records.

• Enter QC summaries into designated files.

• Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.

3. Haematology & Clinical Pathology

• Generate test results for patient diagnosis and treatment by operating haematology instruments.
• • Run EQAS samples for haematology testing.
• • Enter QC summaries into designated files.
• • Ensure quality results by running standards and controls, verifying equipment functionality through routine maintenance and troubleshooting, calibrating instruments using approved procedures, and monitoring quality control measures and protocols.

4. Serology

• Perform rapid card tests to provide test results for patient diagnosis. Inform the lab head in case of positive test results and release results following the due procedure.

Run EQAS samples and enter QC summaries in the file.

• Release HIV-positive test results only after confirmation per NACO guidelines, inform the Lab Head, and send the sample to the reference lab for confirmation.