Lab Technical Assistant
Atlanta, GAJobPosted 1mo agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Lab Technical Assistant supports laboratory operations by managing test-order data and equipment, collecting specimens, and processing, preparing, and distributing specimens for inpatients and outpatients. Candidates must meet one of several education, training, experience, or certification pathways and pass a color-acuity screening test. The posting prefers medical laboratory terminology, computer systems knowledge, service skills, accurate specimen handling, and effective communication.
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Overview
Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.
Responsibilities
Handles laboratory data collection systems and equipment to ensure that requests for laboratory tests are properly ordered, cancelled, and charged to all inpatients, outpatients, and institutional accounts. Performs specimen collection procedures for inpatients and outpatients. Performs non-technical specimen processing, preparation and distribution of specimens from patients.
Qualifications
REQUIRED
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High school diploma or equivalent education (GED) or post-secondary education
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Clinical training in an approved phlebotomy training program, OR,
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Hold at least a two (2) year degree in chemical, physical, or biological science or a health-related specialty, OR
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Two (2) years’ experience in specimen collections, specimen processing and specimen requisitioning for a clinical laboratory or health care delivery system., OR
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Clinical training in a Northside Hospital Lab, as part of the clinical rotations needed for education requirements (high school or college level), OR
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Hold a valid, verifiable Phlebotomy Certification
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All applicants must submit to and pass a Color-Acuity screening Test.
PREFERRED
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Ability to use and understand medical laboratory terminology.
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Demonstrated knowledge of computer systems and design.
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Demonstrated public relations skills and service delivery training.
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Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
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Ability to understand and apply accurate procedures in specimen handling and clerical processing.
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Must have sufficient feeling in fingers and visual ability to locate patients' blood vessels.
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Ability to communicate effectively and must possess good written and oral communication skills.
Work Hours: 4a-12:30p Weekend Requirements: Yes On-Call Requirements: No
How this job compares
Set against the 748 open Laboratory Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$53–56K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$19–26/hr369 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Laboratory Assistant jobs in Georgia and 748 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- HCA Healthcare64 open
- AdventHealth33 open
- Sutter Health32 open
- Experience
- Laboratory Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (228 postings).
- Education
- 17 of the 748 open Laboratory Assistant jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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