Clinical Lab Technologist

Job Summary:

Performs analyses on blood, tissue, and body fluids to aid health care providers in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of patients. Participates in the operational support activities necessary to maintain and optimize testing capabilities. Testing is performed in specialized laboratories and may include highly skilled manual techniques or automated testing using sophisticated instrumentation.

Duties:

• Instrument operation and maintenance
• Troubleshooting assays
• Evaluating tests for accuracy
• Assisting with interpreting results
• Operational support activities to optimize testing
• Working with multiple computer systems to retrieve information and report results
• May assist with specimen collection
• Strictly adhere to safety protocols to work with infectious specimens, chemicals, and other hazards

Required Skills & Experience:

• Must be capable of producing accurate results under time constraints, multi-tasking, and performing in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Must possess good communication skills and be able to work closely with others
• Must be able to accommodate scheduling adjustments, off-shifts, holiday, on-call, and weekend work assignments

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with operation and troubleshooting of laboratory instrumentation and assay systems

Schedule Notes:

1 year assignment

Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday 9:00PM-7:30AM