**Responsibilities**
**Laboratory Assistant – Community Hospital of San Bernardino**
If you are passionate about accuracy, collaboration, and supporting quality patient care behind the scenes, we invite you to consider this vital role on our laboratory team. As a Laboratory Assistant at Community Hospital of San Bernardino, you will play a key part in managing the intake and processing of lab specimens, assisting with clerical functions, and supporting testing and phlebotomy efforts.
This is a fast-paced, detail-focused role ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and understands the critical importance of lab accuracy and efficiency. Your work will directly support diagnostic testing and patient care across the hospital.
**Key Responsibilities Include:**
+ Practice positive patient identification and ensure proper specimen labeling
+ Greet and communicate with patients and team members with professionalism and HumanKindness
+ Process and organize specimens for department distribution with speed and accuracy
+ Handle send-out lab testing, including packaging and documentation for external labs
+ Assist with blood collection following proper venipuncture and capillary techniques (if phlebotomy is part of the role)
+ Support clerical tasks and workflow needs to ensure the lab operates smoothly
+ Collaborate with lab team members to resolve issues and maintain high-quality service
**Why Join Us?**
At Community Hospital of San Bernardino, you will be part of a compassionate and purpose-driven team committed to excellence in diagnostic services. If you are detail-oriented, adaptable, and ready to support the essential work of our laboratory, we would love to hear from you.
**Qualifications**
+ Minimum of six (6) months as a laboratory phlebotomist
+ California Phlebotomy Certification is required.
+ High school graduation or equivalent required.
+ Phlebitomy/Lab Assistant Program certification.
+ (Completion biology, chemistry computer sciences, mathematics, and physics required.) Some college level course work in the sciences preferred.
**Overview**
Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Community Hospital of San Bernardino is a 347-bed, acute care, nonprofit, community hospital located in San Bernardino, California. Known for its programs in maternity care and pediatrics, behavioral health and long-term subacute care for adults and children, the hospital also includes inpatient and outpatient surgery. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here (https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/san-bernardino) https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/san-bernardino for more information.
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**Pay Range**
$26.39 - $31.56 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.