What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Lab Scientist/Laboratory Support Technician position at UPMC?
UPMC Presbyterian is hiring a full-time Laboratory Support Technician, Medical Laboratory Technician, or Medical Laboratory Scientist to support the Microbiology Lab!
We are looking for individuals who are interested in working evening hours, 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., with rotating weekends and holidays.
In this role, you will join a highly innovative lab with a large, diverse team that allows you to make a direct impact on life-changing medicine. This lab provides high-volume service to multiple hospitals within the UPMC system and is the core laboratory for the Urban area!
Applicants will be placed into the appropriate job title and salary based on their individual experience and education. The Medical Lab Technician salary starts at $23.44 an hour. The Medical Lab Scientist level salary starts at $28.90 an hour.
MLS/MLT roles are eligible for a generous sign-on bonus for those who qualify!
Responsibilities:
- Answers phone inquiries.
- Investigates specimen status and report disposition.
- Directs callers to additional resources as needed
- Receives, sorts, prepares and delivers testing-ready specimens for analysis to work areas.
- Demonstrates service orientation approach by conveying courtesy, respect, enthusiasm and a positive attitude in work situations.
- Performs routine and basic instrument maintenance according to established protocols. Records temperatures if required.
- Assists with restocking supplies to maintain an optimal inventory. Maintains clean and orderly storage spaces for room temperature, refrigerated, and frozen supplies.
- Prepares and replenishes instrument reagents and consumables as needed.
- Performs QA / QC procedures as assigned.
- Assists with specimen/slide storage and retrieval.
- Checks pending work lists. Investigates and resolves any unprocessed work.
- Decontaminates work area, keeping a neat and clean working environment.
- Keeps any glassware clean and dry, including tests for residue removal as needed.
- Tests and cleans emergency eyewashes and showers as assigned.
- Sorts laboratory waste as needed and ensures that proper disposal occurs.
- Transports specimens off-site and delivers supplies where required.
- Prepares specimens at workstations for testing. Includes building worklists, checking specimens for acceptability (clots, QNS), aliquoting specimens, loading/unloading specimens onto instruments.
- Prepares microscopic slides and plants specimens in microbiologic growth media where required.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000