Second shift Lead MLT / MT

Georgetown Hospital System • Murrells Inlet, SC

21h

About The Position

Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health! Lead Medical Laboratory Scientist (MT) Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day. A Brief Overview Responsible for performing all testing within the clinical laboratory. Will assist in the organization of all work reported for the designated area. Will assist in maintaining and performing quality control, proficiency testing, instrument maintenance, and adherence to section policies and procedures. Responsible for helping maintain an adequate inventory of reagents and supplies within the clinical laboratory site as appropriate. Performs all procedures in an efficient and accurate manner. Communicates critical values according to lab policy. Responsible for training new employees in the clinical laboratory / maintaining competency assessments within clinic laboratory setting. May perform other duties as assigned by the Laboratory Director or designee.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent and have successfully completed an official military medical laboratory procedures course of at least a duration of 50 weeks and have held the military enlisted occupational specialty of Medical Laboratory Specialist (Laboratory Technician) Required or Certificate through the HHW/HEW Proficiency Examination as a Clinical Laboratory Technologist Required or Bachelor's Degree from an accredited School of Medical Technology or Clinical Laboratory Science, with satisfactory completion of an MT or MLT program. Required
• Clinical training associated with the degree from an accredited School of Medical Laboratory Technology or Clinical Laboratory Science Required
• experience as a full time Medical Laboratory Technician within the clinical laboratory, hospital/clinic/reference lab setting Required
• Medical Technologist - AAB Board of Registry Upon Hire Required or Medical Laboratory Scientist - American Medical Technologist Upon Hire Required or Medical Technologist - American Society for Clinical Pathology Upon Hire Required or Clinical Laboratory Technologist - Department of Health and Human Services Upon Hire Required or Clinical Laboratory Technologist - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Upon Hire Required

Nice To Haves

• Additional experience including blood bank, communicating with regulatory inspectors, The Joint Commission standards, managing processes and workflow preferred.
• Ability to be flexible, working different shifts and in different clinical laboratory areas.
• Ability to work closely with management to ensure processes and procedures are implemented and maintained within the work group.
• Ability to use open communication between coworkers, physicians, hospital and clinic employee partners and healthcare leaders.

Responsibilities

• Analyze specimens with precision and accuracy
• Call critical values and documented according to policy
• Perform analysis in a timely manner as determined by the order priority.
• Perform and document QC according to policy and use QC to validate testing results
• Recognize and document malfunctions, perform appropriate repairs when possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level