What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Laboratory Scientist / Medical Laboratory Technician position at Crossing Rivers Health?
Description
Responsible for specimen collection, processing, test performance, and reporting test results for waived, moderate, or high complexity tests that are performed within this organization, ensuring quality care and compliance with department policy. Performs quality assurance activities as defined by policy and regulation. Responsible for other tasks based on qualifications and experience as deemed necessary for the smooth and effective operation of the department.
Essential Job Functions The list below represents only a portion of the overall job description and responsibilities. Employees are expected to carry out the duties of the position in a professional manner and be capable of flexibility and adaptation to changes in their role in order to meet the needs of patients as well as departmental, organizational, and state requirements.
- Follows the laboratory’s procedures for specimen collection, handling, processing, test analyses, reporting, and maintaining records of patients test results.
- Maintains records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient samples.
- Adheres to the laboratory’s quality control policies, documents all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
- Follows the laboratory’s established corrective action policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory’s defined acceptable levels of performance.
- Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results and corrects the problem or immediately notifies the technical supervisor, clinical consultant or director.
- Documents all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratories established performance characteristics.
- Other job duties and responsibilities as assigned to effectively meet the needs of the patients, the department, and the organization as a whole.
Competencies
- Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Communication – The ability to get one’s ideas across to others through oral or written means and to understand the ideas of others through effective listening skills.
- Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Analytical Skills – Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
- Initiative – Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
- Customer Oriented – Ability to take care of customers’ needs while following company procedures.
- Ethical – Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
- Organized – Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
- Safety Awareness – Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Requirements
Education:
- MT/MLS/CLS: Bachelor's Degree Required, Field of Study: chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science, or medical technology.
- MLT/CLT: Associates Degree Required, Field of Study: Laboratory Science
Certifications & Licenses: Must be registered or eligible to register as a Medical Technologist / Clinical Laboratory Scientist / Medical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Laboratory Technician/Clinical Laboratory Technician through the state or National Registry Association. Must obtain within 1 year or maintain registration as required by registry association.
Other Requirements: Must be qualified to perform high complexity testing without direct supervision under 483.1489 of the Federal Register.
