MLS Technical Specialist Blood Bank
About The Position
The MLS Technical Specialist participates in comprehensive laboratory testing for patients, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and meet quality standards. The specialist serves as the department’s technical expert and oversees the laboratory in the absence of the manager or supervisor. The role includes performing testing, supporting departmental management, coordinating quality assurance and improvement activities, maintaining regulatory compliance and laboratory readiness, and overseeing instrument calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and quality control. The specialist also reviews and correlates results, recognizes abnormal and critical values, verifies result accuracy, and initiates corrective action when needed. The position is scheduled Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science.
- High school graduate.
- Meet CLIA requirements for high-complexity testing.
- Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) certification through American Medical Technologists (AMT) within 180 days.
- Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) certification through the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP) within 180 days.
Responsibilities
- Analyze patient, control, and proficiency testing specimens and record results promptly according to laboratory policy.
- Maintain assigned inventories of supplies and reagents.
- Schedule and coordinate departmental staffing as assigned.
- Participate in departmental financial planning and oversight with the supervisor or manager.
- Contribute to competency training and reviews.
- Coordinate departmental quality assurance and quality improvement activities.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and maintain the laboratory in a state of readiness.
- Keep departmental policies and procedures up to date.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, accreditation, safety, and hospital standards, policies, and procedures.
- Instruct, orient, and mentor students, employees, residents, patients, and other healthcare providers as applicable.
- Complete continuing education and submit appropriate documentation where applicable.
- Oversee instrument calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and quality control, including review and management of related documentation.
- Oversee review and correlation of results with one another and with the patient’s condition; recognize abnormal results and critical or alert values.
- Verify result accuracy and initiate corrective action when indicated.
- Use and wear personal protective equipment as necessary to perform duties safely and minimize risk.
- Oversee the laboratory department in the absence of the manager or supervisor.
- Perform the professional, clinical, and technical competencies of the assigned unit or department; complete other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
