Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Full Time, Evening Shift
About The Position
The Clinical Laboratory Scientist prioritizes and performs a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests on biological specimens, and reviews, evaluates, documents, and reports results. The role protects patient confidentiality and follows laboratory safety and maintenance protocols. It also orients, trains, and supervises trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed. The position performs work across multiple testing areas, including chemistry, coagulation, hematology, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, and referral testing. It supports specimen integrity, quality assurance, result validity, equipment maintenance, and performance improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, biological sciences, chemical sciences, or allied health technologies, or equivalent.
- Valid Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license in the state of employment; required in California.
Nice To Haves
- Clinical laboratory experience.
- Current certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or National Credentialing Agency for Labs (NCA).
Responsibilities
- Use positive patient identification procedures to protect specimen integrity throughout pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical testing.
- Collect specimens, including phlebotomy when necessary, and label, handle, preserve or fix, process, transport, and store them appropriately.
- Follow HIPAA and other patient confidentiality requirements.
- Prioritize laboratory orders, including STAT, ASAP, routine, and timed studies, and perform testing according to prescribed quality assurance policies and procedures.
- Perform, evaluate, and document quality control checks.
- Review test results for validity and accuracy, considering procedure requirements, anticipated results, test interdependencies, physiological conditions, patient age, normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, and delta checks.
- Correlate test results with diagnoses and question incompatible results.
- Document and communicate results thoroughly, and promptly relay critical values and results to appropriate clinicians.
- Dispose of contaminated materials and equipment according to policy and clean the work area after each test.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and calibrate equipment and instrumentation as needed.
- Inventory and restock reagents, calibrators, controls, and supplies as needed.
- Participate in collecting and evaluating data for Performance Improvement evaluations.
- Document adverse events using the incident reporting tool.
- Orient, instruct, and supervise laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
