Sample Accessioner 1

Please note: Our Accessioning team is currently full. You are welcome to apply to this job posting and we will review your application/reachout when we have a vacancy. 

Summary: 

This role offers the opportunity to gain experience in a fast paced cutting edge clinical lab environment. The Clinical Operations Specialist (Accessioning) will work in a team environment which includes project managers and clinical lab ops specialists. As an Accessioner, daily tasks will involve patient specimen intake, accessioning and fulfilling client requests for returns or destructions. This will entail following SOPs and working with Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and other software. This role will also perform shipping / receiving, recording and inventorying of samples sent for laboratory testing.

Responsibilities: 

• Confirming daily incoming specimens such as blood, plasma, and tissue meet acceptability standards for testing
• Labeling specimens with associated unique lab identifiers & maintaining sample inventory logs.
• Promptly fulfill client requests to return or destroy specimens. 
• Prepare and ship specimens to various client testing sites. 
• Logging test reports and other sample data into LIMS.
• Work closely with the Lab Processing Team to provide consistent and ongoing support to the entire Lab Operations department.
• Assist with team projects or various initiatives and help train incoming staff members. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor of Arts or Science in Biological Sciences, Health Information Systems, Biomedical Laboratory Science, Clinical Science or related field and 0-2 years relevant experience.
• Proficient computing skills.
• Attention to detail and the ability to accomplish/complete a task while demonstrating a thorough concern for all the areas involved.
• Capable communicator with ability to maintain open communication with internal employees, managers.

Personalis, Inc. is a leader in advanced cancer genomics for enabling the next generation of precision cancer therapies and diagnostics. The Personalis NeXT Platform® is designed to adapt to the complex and evolving understanding of cancer, providing its biopharmaceutical customers and clinicians with information on all of the approximately 20,000 human genes, together with the immune system, from a single tissue sample. In population sequencing, Personalis operates one of the largest sequencing operations globally and is currently the sole sequencing provider to Veterans Affairs' Million Veteran Program. To enable cancer and population sequencing, Personalis' Clinical Laboratory was built with a focus on clinical accuracy, quality, big data, scale and efficiency. The laboratory is GxP-aligned as well as Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988-certified and College of American Pathologists-accredited.

Personalis is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. As part of this commitment, Personalis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If you need an accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your recruiter know.

Personalis is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities. Personalis offers a competitive compensation package and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, ESPP, tuition reimbursement, sick/vacation time, commuter benefits/ EV charging stations, onsite gym, and wellness benefits. (For US only, benefits in other countries may vary.) 

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