Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintaining patient confidentiality at all times
- Collection of blood, urine, stool and sputum samples from patients
- Manages the functionality of the blood bank (Jojoima).
- Conducting analyses of specimens such as blood, stool and urine and sputum using microscope or automatic equipment (including hematology, biochemistry, Gene-pert, I-STAT), including management of samples for the MDR-TB program
- Analyze the results of clinical tests and experiments
- Maintenance and quality control of laboratory procedures and equipment
- Registration of patient results, including digital record keeping
- Supervise and mentor laboratory assistant and laboratory microscopists and ensure best practices are maintained at all times,
- Prepare standard solutions and reagents for experimental procedures
- Cleaning of lab and equipment’s
- Ensure that monthly requisitions are made
- Ensure that supplies and stock are managed appropriately
- Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partner In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures
