Medical Laboratory Scientist Jobs

General Summary

• Assists with training of new employees and assuring competency, and assists management with updating and correcting procedure manuals and policies as needed.
• Performs work accurately, verified timely and posted to proper work area when requested or required. Routine testing is performed without assistance to include reagent reconstitution/storage, with moderate ability to solve testing and/or analyzer problems. Quality control is always reviewed and performed according to department policy with documentation of all quality control failures and corrective action as needed.
• Prioritizes workload to ensure priority of testing request is met.
• Performs all pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical assessments on an on-going basis and troubleshoots potential specimen issues as needed for both in-house and reference testing.
• Reviews pending list regularly and at end of shift to ensure completion of applicable work shift and communicates remaining pending work and/or relevant information to next shift.
• Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, and handles information flow. Actively participates in ensuring good balance between workload and department productivity goals is maintained.
• Ensures all critical results are called to provider and documented with time and name of person receiving call in accordance with accrediting agencies.