Patient Care Assistant II (Clinical Pathology) [Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital & Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals]

Key Responsibilities

1. Assist technicians with the collection of various specimens, classification, checking, labeling, recording and registration.

2. Handle specimens, operate other simple and semi-skilled technical work under supervision.

3. Handle the disinfection of contaminated glasses and containers, reuse or dispose them as appropriate; dispose corrosive and poisonous reagents, chemicals and articles which are likely to be infectious.

4. Assist with the preparation of culture media, solvents, reagents, dyestuff, containers or glasses in laboratory which need special treatment.

5. Operate autoclave, high temperature oven to sterilize the clean or infectious articles under supervision.

6. Sterilize, clean and tidy the working table and equipment in laboratory.

7. Perform other related duties as assigned by supervisors.

Entry Requirements

1. Completed F.5 / S.5 or equivalent; AND

2. Completion of structured departmental training (see Remark 2); AND

3. Good command of English and Chinese, written and spoken.

Preferable Attributes

1. Pleasant and mature personality, interested to work in hospital environment.

2. Knowledge in computer software such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Chinese Word Processing.

Remarks

1. Please refer to https\://www.ha.org.hk/haho/ho/hrd_jv/NotestoApplicants.pdf for “Notes to Applicants”.

2. Applicants who do not meet entry requirement (2), if find suitable, will be employed to undergo at least 6 months’ on the job training including the structured departmental training. Employment may be terminated if the selected applicant cannot pass the examination / assessment after training.