Sr. Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Full-time, Day Shift

Adventist Health•Montebello, CA

16h

About The Position

Adventist Health White Memorial Montebello is a 192-bed hospital with wound care medical office, surgical, and laboratory services. The Senior Clinical Laboratory Scientist prioritizes and performs a wide variety of tests on biological specimens, reviews and reports results, protects patient confidentiality, and follows laboratory safety and maintenance protocols. The role may serve as a technical consultant when delegated by the medical director, mentor laboratory personnel, and train or supervise trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed. The position performs specimen collection and processing, laboratory testing across multiple disciplines, quality control, result evaluation and communication, and maintenance and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment. It also supports inventory management, quality initiatives, and efficient laboratory operations.

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.
Receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Nice To Haves

Three years of 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 maintain specimen integrity throughout pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical testing.
Collect, label, handle, preserve or fix, process or prepare, transport, and store specimens, including performing phlebotomy as necessary.
Follow HIPAA and other patient confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
Prioritize STAT, ASAP, routine, and timed laboratory orders and perform testing across areas including chemistry, coagulation, hematology, special chemistry, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, and referral testing.
Contain costs without sacrificing patient care.
Review and evaluate test-result validity and accuracy, considering test interdependencies, physiological conditions, patient age and normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, and delta checks.
Correlate test results with diagnoses and question incompatible results.
Document and communicate test results, promptly escalating critical values and results to appropriate clinicians.
Maintain, troubleshoot, and calibrate equipment and instrumentation as needed.
Monitor and stock reagents, calibrators, controls, and supplies based on usage trends.
Serve as a technical consultant and mentor to laboratory personnel.
Orient, instruct, and supervise laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
Perform inventory checks, correlation studies, and CAP survey testing as scheduled or assigned by department supervisors.
Perform quality control checks and help resolve quality control issues.
Notify the department supervisor of suggested procedural changes or policy improvements to improve laboratory productivity and efficiency.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.