Medical Laboratory Scientist Lead - SD

Monument Health Rapid City Hospital•Gillette, WY

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This role organizes and supervises workload, performs specialized testing, and helps develop and implement a quality assurance program. The Medical Laboratory Scientist Lead establishes and maintains cooperative relationships, assists with employee performance and competency assessment, and provides instruction and training for staff and students. This position helps implement, maintain, and monitor adherence to safety and infection control practices, provides cost-effective, high-quality service, and helps oversee proficiency testing within the department. The lead demonstrates and promotes a commitment to customer satisfaction and professionalism.

Requirements

Bachelor's in Medical Laboratory Technology or Bachelor's in a chemical, physical, or biological science.
Or high school graduate or equivalent and have successfully completed an official military medical laboratory procedures course of at least 50 weeks duration and have held the military enlisted occupation specialty of medical laboratory specialist (laboratory technician).
Or Associates degree in Medical Laboratory Technology or Associates degree in a chemical, physical, or biological science.
Reliable, adheres to the work schedule/call, and responds to call appropriately and timely.
Shows a willingness to be flexible with the schedule when necessary.
Certification requirement applies to caregivers hired after June 30, 2017 into either MLT or MLS/MT jobs or Lead MLT or MLS jobs.

Nice To Haves

1+ years of Laboratory Experience
1+ years of Staff Technologist Experience

Responsibilities

Organizes and supervises workload.
Performs specialized testing.
Organizes, helps develop, and helps implement quality assurance program.
Establishes and maintains cooperative relationships.
Assists with employee performance and competency assessment.
Provides instruction and training for staff/students.
Helps implement, maintain, and monitor adherence to safety and infection control practices.
Provides cost effective, high quality service.
Helps oversee proficiency testing within department.
Demonstrates and promotes a commitment to customer satisfaction and professionalism.
Assists in evaluating employee performance either by competency assessment practices, by consultation with other employees in section, and/or by direct observation of performance in clinical activities.
Assists in evaluating, selecting, and validating new equipment and new methodologies; implements changes in response to technology and laboratory procedures.
Assists in organizing, implementing, and maintaining a quality assurance program.
Interprets test results by correlating patient data with clinical history and diagnosis.
Differentiates technical, instrumental, and/or physiological causes for unexpected results.
Operates laboratory instruments utilizing established protocols.
Performs routine calibration or standardization of instruments, performs preventive maintenance or corrective maintenance, and recognizes instrument malfunction maintaining availability of testing capabilities.
Verifies the accuracy and reliability of test results by performing quality control according to policy, demonstrates competence of self and testing methods.
Acts as mentor for members of the section by delegating appropriate duties, training to function in supervisor’s absence, and by actively encouraging their professional growth.
Adheres to the highest laboratory standards in order to consistently provide quality clinical laboratory testing to all customers by performing various analyses of biological specimens in an efficient and accurate manner.
Assists the Laboratory Leaders in technical aspects of goals, objectives, tactics, and long-range planning of the Laboratory.
All other duties as assigned.