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Make an Impact Where It Matters Most — Join Us in beautiful British Columbia, Squamish

Calling all Medical Lab Assistants! Ready to bring your skills somewhere they truly make a difference? Come to Beautiful British Columbia, Squamish

We’re inviting passionate, patient-centered professionals like you to join our team in Squamish, BC. This is a thriving community nestled between the ocean and mountains, where you can grow your career while living an active, adventure-filled lifestyle.

Why This Role, Why Now?

In Squamish, you’re not just processing samples—you’re part of a small, dedicated team delivering essential care in a fast-growing community. You’ll collaborate with technologists, physicians, nurse clinicians, and fellow lab professionals who share the same mission: providing world-class diagnostics and compassionate care to patients who count on us every day.

Whether you’re a new grad eager to start your career or a seasoned Medical Lab Assistant looking for a lifestyle change, you’ll find opportunity, purpose, and community here.

Why you’ll love working with us in the town of Squamish as a Medical Lab Assistant

• Grow your career – Develop your skills in a supportive environment with strong local leadership and a collaborative team of healthcare professionals.
• Make a real impact – Deliver essential, high-quality diagnostic care that directly improves patient outcomes in your local community.
• Be part of a collaborative team – Work alongside passionate technologists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals focused on innovation and compassionate care.
• Earn great pay and benefits – Enjoy $29.27/hour and percentage in lieu
• Live where adventure meets community – Swap long commutes for breathtaking mountain views. Explore world class rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, and water sports right at your doorstep. Enjoy all of this while being just an hour from Vancouver. Squamish also offers a vibrant arts scene, community events, and a welcoming, family friendly atmosphere.

Within the context of a client and family centered care model and in accordance with established vision and values of the organization, this position works under general supervision to perform duties related to blood collection and specimen processing. Receives patients for testing, collects blood specimens using venipuncture and skin puncture, prepares specimens for analysis and forwards to referral laboratories or other areas. Utilizes the Laboratory Information systems and related database system/s to enter data, generate blood collection lists and reports, etc. Answers telephones, files and distributes materials as required.

What you’ll do

As a key part of our laboratory team, you will:

• Collect blood specimens through venipuncture and skin puncture, ensuring accuracy and patient comfort.
• Prepare specimens for analysis and forward them to referral laboratories or other departments.
• Process non-blood specimens with care and precision.
• Package specimens safely for transport in line with Transportation of Dangerous Goods and WHMIS guidelines
• Register patients, generate blood collection lists, and manage test data using the Laboratory Information System (LIS) and related databases
• Greet, identify, and prepare patients for collection and testing procedures in accordance with established lab protocols.
• Respond to patient and facility inquiries, relay messages and results, and support smooth day-to-day lab operations
• Maintain cleanliness of workstations and flag low stock levels to the supervisor for replenishment.

What you bring

What You’ll Do

As a key part of our laboratory team, you will:

• Collect blood specimens through venipuncture and skin puncture, ensuring accuracy and patient comfort.
• Prepare specimens for analysis and forward them to referral laboratories or other departments.
• Process non-blood specimens with care and precision.
• Package specimens safely for transport in line with Transportation of Dangerous Goods and WHMIS guidelines
• Register patients, generate blood collection lists, and manage test data using the Laboratory Information System (LIS) and related databases
• Greet, identify, and prepare patients for collection and testing procedures in accordance with established lab protocols.
• Respond to patient and facility inquiries, relay messages and results, and support smooth day-to-day lab operations
• Maintain cleanliness of workstations and flag low stock levels to the supervisor for replenishment.

What you’ll bring

• Grade 12, successful completion of a recognized Lab Assistant training program plus one year's recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Completion of a Medical Laboratory Assistant training program.
• Typing speed of 25 wpm (Ability to successfully complete the online English and Typing assessment)
• Proven venipuncture experience, ideally in a fast-paced healthcare setting.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to teamwork.
• Willingness to live, work and grow your career in Squamish.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples in social and health contexts, including supported by significant knowledge of Indigenous-specific mandates, including clear understanding of and commitment to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism and discrimination and embed Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within health care settings. This involves familiarity and understanding Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within Provincial Laboratory Medicine Services contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study - BC Human Rights Code, BC Anti-racism Act and how they intersect across the health care system.

Core Competencies

• Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and the broader systemic racism that exists in the colonial health care structure, and has demonstrated initiatives in breaking down barriers and ensuring a safe environment ensuring a sense of belonging to all and informed by Indigenous Cultural Safety.
• Awareness of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (the Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrates a commitment to beginning and/or continuing their personal learning journey related to Indigenous-specific racism and dismantling systems of oppression, as well as addressing racism more broadly. Shows willingness to articulate and share their learning experiences to contribute to a culture of motivation and inspiration among peers.
• Demonstrates foundational knowledge of the social, economic, and political realities of settler-colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous peoples and equity-deserving groups within social and health contexts. Understands the impact of social determinants of health-on-health outcomes. Shows a commitment to learning about and upholding legislative obligations and provincial commitments outlined in foundational documents such as the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, the BC Human Rights Code, Anti-Racism Data Act, and the Distinctions Based Approach.